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The semantics of this language are much different than other languages I know.

Based on responses from 1703 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "The semantics of this language are much different than other languages I know." describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Prolog
  2. J
  3. Factor
  4. Haskell
  5. Erlang
  6. Forth
  7. Common Lisp
  8. Coq
  9. APL
  10. Mozart-Oz

Bottom items

  1. Java
  2. C
  3. C#
  4. C++
  5. PHP
  6. Pascal
  7. Visual Basic
  8. Python
  9. Javascript
  10. Lua

Most similar to

  1. I often feel like I am not smart enough to write this language
  2. This language has unusual features that I often miss when using other languages
  3. Learning this language significantly changed how I use other languages.
  4. I enjoy playing with this language but would never use it for "real code"
  5. This language is built on a small core of orthogonal features

Most dissimilar from

  1. This language is frequently used for applications it isn't suitable for
  2. This is a mainstream language
  3. I know many other people who use this language
  4. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  5. I know this language well

All items

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