programming languages

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I rarely have difficulty abstracting patterns I find in my code

Based on responses from 2519 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "I rarely have difficulty abstracting patterns I find in my code" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Clojure
  2. Haskell
  3. Scala
  4. Common Lisp
  5. Io
  6. F#
  7. Scheme
  8. O'Caml
  9. Ruby
  10. Python

Bottom items

  1. Assembler
  2. Cobol
  3. Shell
  4. Fortran
  5. TCL
  6. AWK
  7. Prolog
  8. Visual Basic
  9. C
  10. PHP

Most similar to

  1. This language is expressive
  2. I find code written in this language very elegant
  3. This language encourages writing reusable code.
  4. This language is well suited for an agile development approach using short iterations.
  5. I enjoy using this language

Most dissimilar from

  1. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  2. I often get angry when writing code in this language
  3. Writing code in this language is a lot of work
  4. This language has an annoying syntax
  5. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years

All items

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