I can imagine this will be a popular language in twenty years time

Based on responses from 1918 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "I can imagine this will be a popular language in twenty years time" describes different items

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Top items

  1. Scala
  2. Python
  3. Haskell
  4. Clojure
  5. Javascript
  6. F#
  7. Ruby
  8. C#
  9. Go
  10. Erlang

Bottom items

  1. Delphi
  2. Pascal
  3. Assembler
  4. Forth
  5. Factor
  6. Fortran
  7. Visual Basic
  8. AWK
  9. Cobol
  10. Prolog

What's going on here?

We've taken all your individual votes and done our best to assemble them into an overall ordering of items. It wasn't easy! There are all sorts of internal contradictions in majority voting.

For items where we've got a lot of responses the numbers should be pretty good. For the rest you can probably just expect them to hang around the middle of the rankings wondering what they're doing here.

Most similar to

  1. I can imagine using this language in my day job
  2. This language is likely to have a strong influence on future languages
  3. I usually use this language on solo projects
  4. I would list this language on my resume
  5. This language has a good community

Most dissimilar from

  1. This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it
  2. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  3. I am reluctant to admit to knowing this language
  4. I often get angry when writing code in this language
  5. I learned this language early in my career as a programmer

All items

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