programming languages

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I find code written in this language very elegant

Based on responses from 394500 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "I find code written in this language very elegant" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Haskell
  2. F#
  3. Standard ML
  4. Scheme
  5. O'Caml
  6. Coq
  7. Clojure
  8. Scala
  9. J
  10. APL

Bottom items

  1. Visual Basic
  2. Assembler
  3. Cobol
  4. Fortran
  5. PHP
  6. Shell
  7. ActionScript
  8. Perl
  9. AWK
  10. Matlab

All items

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