I would use this language for a web project

Based on responses from 2209 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "I would use this language for a web project" describes different items

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Top items

  1. Javascript
  2. Ruby
  3. Scala
  4. Python
  5. Haxe
  6. Clojure
  7. PHP
  8. REBOL
  9. Java
  10. Groovy

Bottom items

  1. Assembler
  2. Cobol
  3. Coq
  4. Fortran
  5. AWK
  6. ELisp
  7. Matlab
  8. Forth
  9. C
  10. C++

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Most similar to

  1. This language has a good library distribution mechanism.
  2. This language is very flexible
  3. I can imagine this will be a popular language in twenty years time
  4. I find this language easy to prototype in
  5. This language is well suited for an agile development approach using short iterations.

Most dissimilar from

  1. This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it
  2. Writing code in this language is a lot of work
  3. I learned this language early in my career as a programmer
  4. This language is unusually bad for beginners
  5. I would use this language for writing embedded programs

All items

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