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I often get angry when writing code in this language

Based on responses from 1543 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "I often get angry when writing code in this language" describes different programming languages.

Top items

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

Bottom items

  1. Python
  2. Clojure
  3. Haskell
  4. Scheme
  5. Smalltalk
  6. Common Lisp
  7. Haxe
  8. Io
  9. Lua
  10. Go

Most similar to

  1. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years
  2. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  3. This language has an annoying syntax
  4. There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language
  5. This language makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot

Most dissimilar from

  1. I find code written in this language very elegant
  2. I enjoy using this language
  3. I use this language out of choice
  4. This language encourages writing reusable code.
  5. This language is expressive

All items

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