I enjoy using this language

Based on responses from 2214 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "I enjoy using this language" describes different items

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Top items

  1. Haskell
  2. Scala
  3. O'Caml
  4. Coq
  5. Clojure
  6. F#
  7. Python
  8. Smalltalk
  9. Ruby
  10. Scheme

Bottom items

  1. Visual Basic
  2. Fortran
  3. TCL
  4. Cobol
  5. PHP
  6. Assembler
  7. Pascal
  8. C++
  9. Shell
  10. Perl

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 find code written in this language very elegant
  2. This language is expressive
  3. This language has unusual features that I often miss when using other languages
  4. I use this language out of choice
  5. I would like to write more of this language than I currently do

Most dissimilar from

  1. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  2. I often get angry when writing code in this language
  3. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years
  4. There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language
  5. I am sometimes embarrassed to admit to my peers that I know this language

All items

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