Based on responses from 2465 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "Programs written in this language tend to be efficient" describes different programming languages.
Programs written in this language tend to be efficient
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Most similar to
- This language is suitable for real-time applications
- I would use this language for writing programs for an embedded hardware platform
- I find it easy to write efficient code in this language
- I would use this language for writing embedded programs
- This language allows me to write programs where I know exactly what they are doing under the hood
Most dissimilar from
- I often write things in this language with the intent of rewriting them in something else later
- This language is best for very small projects
- I would use this language for casual scripting
- I would use this language as a scripting language embedded inside a larger application
- This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it
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- Assembler
- C
- Forth
- C++
- D
- Fortran
- O'Caml
- Eiffel
- F#
- Objective C
- Go
- Haskell
- ActionScript
- REBOL
- Delphi
- Scala
- Factor
- Ada
- C#
- Java
- Haxe
- Agda
- Pascal
- Common Lisp
- Standard ML
- Erlang
- R
- J
- Mathematica
- Scheme
- Mozart-Oz
- Lua
- Clojure
- Coq
- Groovy
- APL
- Perl
- Cobol
- Io
- Python
- AWK
- Matlab
- TCL
- Smalltalk
- Javascript
- PHP
- Ruby
- ELisp
- Visual Basic
- Prolog
- Shell