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There are many good commercial tools for this language

Based on responses from 2464 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "There are many good commercial tools for this language" describes different programming languages.

Top items

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

Bottom items

  1. AWK
  2. Pascal
  3. Coq
  4. Shell
  5. O'Caml
  6. Haskell
  7. Factor
  8. Io
  9. ELisp
  10. Prolog

Most similar to

  1. There are many good tools for this language
  2. This is a mainstream language
  3. Third-party libraries are readily available, well-documented, and of high quality
  4. I know many other people who use this language
  5. This language is well documented

Most dissimilar from

  1. I enjoy playing with this language but would never use it for "real code"
  2. The semantics of this language are much different than other languages I know.
  3. This language is built on a small core of orthogonal features
  4. This language is minimal
  5. Code written in this language tends to be terse

All items

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