programming languages

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Smalltalk

Based on 12339 responses from 936 people, this is the picture we've built up of Smalltalk.

Most similar to...

  1. Scheme
  2. Clojure
  3. Standard ML
  4. Lua
  5. Io

Most dissimilar from...

  1. C++
  2. C
  3. Fortran
  4. Java
  5. PHP

All statements

  1. This language would be good for teaching children to write software
  2. It is easy to debug programs written in this language when it goes wrong
  3. This language is good for beginners
  4. This language has a very coherent design
  5. This language is built on a small core of orthogonal features
  6. I find code written in this language very elegant
  7. This is a high level language
  8. I would recommend most programmers learn this language, regardless of whether they have a specific need for it
  9. This language is well suited for an agile development approach using short iterations.
  10. This language is expressive
  11. Code written in this language is very readable
  12. Learning this language improved my ability as a programmer
  13. I would like to write more of this language than I currently do
  14. This language is likely to have a strong influence on future languages
  15. This language is minimal
  16. Learning this language significantly changed how I use other languages.
  17. It is easy to tell at a glance what code in this language does
  18. I enjoy using this language
  19. This language has unusual features that I often miss when using other languages
  20. This language encourages writing code that is easy to maintain.
  21. This language has well-organized libraries with consistent, carefully thought-out interfaces
  22. I rarely have difficulty abstracting patterns I find in my code
  23. The semantics of this language are much different than other languages I know.
  24. I enjoy playing with this language but would never use it for "real code"
  25. I find this language easy to prototype in
  26. This language has a wide variety of agreed-upon conventions, which are generally adhered to reasonably well, and which increase my productivity
  27. This language excels at symbolic manipulation
  28. This language encourages writing reusable code.
  29. This language is very flexible
  30. I would use this language for a web project
  31. Code written in this language tends to be terse
  32. When I write code in this language I can be very sure it is correct
  33. Code written in this language tends to be very reliable
  34. This language is best for very large projects
  35. I would use this language for a desktop GUI project
  36. I use this language out of choice
  37. There are many good tools for this language
  38. This language has a very rigid idea of how things should be done
  39. This language has a niche in which it is great
  40. If this language didn't exist, I would have trouble finding a satisfactory replacement
  41. This language excels at text processing
  42. This language matches it's problem domain particularly well.
  43. I would use this language as a scripting language embedded inside a larger application
  44. If my code in this language successfully compiles, there is a good chance my code is correct.
  45. This language is best for very small projects
  46. This language has a high quality implementation
  47. This language has a good community
  48. This language has a very dogmatic community
  49. I would use this language for writing embedded programs
  50. This language is easier to use for it's problem domain by removing unneeded expressiveness (such as not being Turing complete).
  51. I still discover new features of this language on a fairly regular basis
  52. I would use this language for writing server programs
  53. This language allows me to write programs where I know exactly what they are doing under the hood
  54. I can imagine this will be a popular language in twenty years time
  55. This language has a good library distribution mechanism.
  56. This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it
  57. I am reluctant to admit to knowing this language
  58. It's unusual for me to discover unfamiliar features
  59. I can imagine using this language in my day job
  60. I often feel like I am not smart enough to write this language
  61. I usually use this language on solo projects
  62. Code written in this language will usually run in all the major implementations if it runs in one of them.
  63. I often write things in this language with the intent of rewriting them in something else later
  64. Libraries in this language tend to be well documented.
  65. This language is likely to be a passing fad
  66. This language is good for distributed computing
  67. I would use this language for casual scripting
  68. There are many good commercial tools for this language
  69. Programs written in this language will usually work in future versions of the language
  70. This language excels at concurrency
  71. This language is well documented
  72. It is too easy to write code in this language that looks like it does one thing but actually does something else
  73. I usually use this language on projects with many other members
  74. This language is likely to be around for a very long time
  75. I find it easy to write efficient code in this language
  76. Code written in this language tends to be verbose
  77. This language has an annoying syntax
  78. I am sometimes embarrassed to admit to my peers that I know this language
  79. This language is frequently used for applications it isn't suitable for
  80. I would use this language for mobile applications
  81. I would list this language on my resume
  82. There are many good open-source tools for this language
  83. When I run into problems my colleagues can provide me with immediate help with this language
  84. I know this language well
  85. This language is good for scientific computing
  86. The resources for learning this language are of high quality
  87. I regularly use this language
  88. This language is large
  89. I learned this language early in my career as a programmer
  90. This language is suitable for real-time applications
  91. There is a wide variety of open source code written in this language
  92. I often get angry when writing code in this language
  93. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years
  94. Third-party libraries are readily available, well-documented, and of high quality
  95. I use a lot of code written in this language which I really don't want to have to make changes to
  96. I would use this language for writing programs for an embedded hardware platform
  97. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  98. Writing code in this language is a lot of work
  99. This language has a strong static type system
  100. This language has many features which feel "tacked on"
  101. There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language
  102. This language makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot
  103. This is a low level language
  104. I know many other people who use this language
  105. I use many applications written in this language
  106. This is a mainstream language
  107. This language is good for numeric computing
  108. Programs written in this language tend to be efficient
  109. This language is unusually bad for beginners
  110. Programs written in this language tend to play well with others
  111. I would use this language to write a command-line app