programming languages

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The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread

Based on responses from 2333 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Cobol
  2. Visual Basic
  3. PHP
  4. C++
  5. Fortran
  6. Pascal
  7. Delphi
  8. Java
  9. Perl
  10. TCL

Bottom items

  1. Haskell
  2. J
  3. Scala
  4. Scheme
  5. Smalltalk
  6. D
  7. Clojure
  8. Common Lisp
  9. F#
  10. Python

Most similar to

  1. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years
  2. I often get angry when writing code in this language
  3. There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language
  4. This language is frequently used for applications it isn't suitable for
  5. Code written in this language tends to be verbose

Most dissimilar from

  1. This language has unusual features that I often miss when using other languages
  2. I find code written in this language very elegant
  3. I would like to write more of this language than I currently do
  4. I enjoy using this language
  5. I use this language out of choice

All items

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