I know this language well

Based on responses from 17786 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "I know this language well" describes different items

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Top items

  1. Java
  2. C
  3. C#
  4. Python
  5. C++
  6. Javascript
  7. PHP
  8. Ruby
  9. Scala
  10. Groovy

Bottom items

  1. APL
  2. Ada
  3. Cobol
  4. Factor
  5. Forth
  6. Prolog
  7. TCL
  8. Fortran
  9. Mozart-Oz
  10. Agda

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 regularly use this language
  2. There is a wide variety of open source code written in this language
  3. There are many good tools for this language
  4. Third-party libraries are readily available, well-documented, and of high quality
  5. I use many applications written in this language

Most dissimilar from

  1. I enjoy playing with this language but would never use it for "real code"
  2. The semantics of this language are much different than other languages I know.
  3. This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it
  4. This language is built on a small core of orthogonal features
  5. I often feel like I am not smart enough to write this language

All items

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