programming languages

Rank

I would like to write more of this language than I currently do

Based on responses from 2448 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "I would like to write more of this language than I currently do" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Haskell
  2. Clojure
  3. Scala
  4. Erlang
  5. D
  6. Go
  7. J
  8. Coq
  9. F#
  10. Scheme

Bottom items

  1. Visual Basic
  2. Cobol
  3. Pascal
  4. PHP
  5. Delphi
  6. Shell
  7. Assembler
  8. Perl
  9. AWK
  10. Fortran

Most similar to

  1. This language has unusual features that I often miss when using other languages
  2. I enjoy using this language
  3. I use this language out of choice
  4. I find code written in this language very elegant
  5. This language is expressive

Most dissimilar from

  1. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  2. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years
  3. I learned this language early in my career as a programmer
  4. This language is frequently used for applications it isn't suitable for
  5. I often get angry when writing code in this language

All items

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