programming languages

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I enjoy playing with this language but would never use it for "real code"

Based on responses from 2469 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "I enjoy playing with this language but would never use it for "real code"" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Eiffel
  2. Forth
  3. Prolog
  4. ELisp
  5. J
  6. Factor
  7. Scheme
  8. Haskell
  9. R
  10. Io

Bottom items

  1. Java
  2. C#
  3. C++
  4. C
  5. Scala
  6. Python
  7. Delphi
  8. Objective C
  9. Ada
  10. Ruby

Most similar to

  1. The semantics of this language are much different than other languages I know.
  2. This language is minimal
  3. This language is built on a small core of orthogonal features
  4. This language is easier to use for it's problem domain by removing unneeded expressiveness (such as not being Turing complete).
  5. This language has a very coherent design

Most dissimilar from

  1. I know this language well
  2. I usually use this language on projects with many other members
  3. This is a mainstream language
  4. This language has many features which feel "tacked on"
  5. There are many good commercial tools for this language

All items

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