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I often write things in this language with the intent of rewriting them in something else later

Based on responses from 2282 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "I often write things in this language with the intent of rewriting them in something else later" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Shell
  2. Python
  3. Ruby
  4. Perl
  5. J
  6. Mathematica
  7. Matlab
  8. AWK
  9. Common Lisp
  10. Scheme

Bottom items

  1. Assembler
  2. Ada
  3. D
  4. Fortran
  5. Cobol
  6. C
  7. Objective C
  8. C++
  9. Scala
  10. Erlang

Most similar to

  1. This language is best for very small projects
  2. I would use this language for casual scripting
  3. This language is easier to use for it's problem domain by removing unneeded expressiveness (such as not being Turing complete).
  4. I find this language easy to prototype in
  5. I would use this language as a scripting language embedded inside a larger application

Most dissimilar from

  1. This language allows me to write programs where I know exactly what they are doing under the hood
  2. Programs written in this language tend to be efficient
  3. This language is suitable for real-time applications
  4. This is a low level language
  5. I find it easy to write efficient code in this language

All items

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