programming languages

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It's unusual for me to discover unfamiliar features

Based on responses from 2549 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "It's unusual for me to discover unfamiliar features" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. C
  2. Java
  3. Pascal
  4. Eiffel
  5. Scheme
  6. Forth
  7. Assembler
  8. J
  9. Lua
  10. Standard ML

Bottom items

  1. D
  2. Scala
  3. Perl
  4. ELisp
  5. Haskell
  6. TCL
  7. Mathematica
  8. C++
  9. Common Lisp
  10. O'Caml

Most similar to

  1. This language allows me to write programs where I know exactly what they are doing under the hood
  2. I learned this language early in my career as a programmer
  3. Writing code in this language is a lot of work
  4. Code written in this language tends to be verbose
  5. This language is suitable for real-time applications

Most dissimilar from

  1. I still discover new features of this language on a fairly regular basis
  2. This language excels at text processing
  3. I find this language easy to prototype in
  4. I would use this language for casual scripting
  5. This language excels at symbolic manipulation

All items

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