programming languages

Rank

I know this language well

Based on responses from 21608 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "I know this language well" describes different programming languages.

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. Agda
  6. Forth
  7. Prolog
  8. Fortran
  9. Io
  10. TCL

Most similar to

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

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. REBOL
  31. AWK
  32. Mathematica
  33. Coq
  34. Smalltalk
  35. R
  36. D
  37. Assembler
  38. Go
  39. Eiffel
  40. J
  41. Mozart-Oz
  42. TCL
  43. Io
  44. Fortran
  45. Prolog
  46. Forth
  47. Agda
  48. Factor
  49. Cobol
  50. Ada
  51. APL