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Code written in this language tends to be verbose

Based on responses from 2614 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "Code written in this language tends to be verbose" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Cobol
  2. Assembler
  3. Java
  4. Visual Basic
  5. Objective C
  6. Ada
  7. Pascal
  8. Delphi
  9. C++
  10. Fortran

Bottom items

  1. APL
  2. Haskell
  3. Forth
  4. J
  5. O'Caml
  6. Clojure
  7. Common Lisp
  8. Perl
  9. Scheme
  10. Python

Most similar to

  1. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  2. Writing code in this language is a lot of work
  3. This language is frequently used for applications it isn't suitable for
  4. There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language
  5. I often get angry when writing code in this language

Most dissimilar from

  1. Code written in this language tends to be terse
  2. This language has unusual features that I often miss when using other languages
  3. I find this language easy to prototype in
  4. I find code written in this language very elegant
  5. This language is expressive

All items

  1. Cobol
  2. Assembler
  3. Java
  4. Visual Basic
  5. Objective C
  6. Ada
  7. Pascal
  8. Delphi
  9. C++
  10. Fortran
  11. C#
  12. C
  13. Mozart-Oz
  14. PHP
  15. Eiffel
  16. Coq
  17. Smalltalk
  18. REBOL
  19. Matlab
  20. Haxe
  21. Javascript
  22. Go
  23. R
  24. ELisp
  25. TCL
  26. D
  27. Mathematica
  28. Groovy
  29. Io
  30. Shell
  31. Lua
  32. Erlang
  33. Scala
  34. Prolog
  35. Ruby
  36. F#
  37. Factor
  38. AWK
  39. Standard ML
  40. Python
  41. Scheme
  42. Perl
  43. Common Lisp
  44. Clojure
  45. O'Caml
  46. J
  47. Forth
  48. Haskell
  49. APL