programming languages

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There are many good tools for this language

Based on responses from 2443 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "There are many good tools for this language" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Java
  2. C#
  3. C
  4. C++
  5. F#
  6. Python
  7. Ruby
  8. Javascript
  9. Smalltalk
  10. Scala

Bottom items

  1. Forth
  2. AWK
  3. Prolog
  4. Assembler
  5. Go
  6. Cobol
  7. Pascal
  8. Shell
  9. Lua
  10. Standard ML

Most similar to

  1. Third-party libraries are readily available, well-documented, and of high quality
  2. There are many good commercial tools for this language
  3. Libraries in this language tend to be well documented.
  4. This language is well documented
  5. The resources for learning this language are of high quality

Most dissimilar from

  1. This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it
  2. I enjoy playing with this language but would never use it for "real code"
  3. This language is minimal
  4. This language is built on a small core of orthogonal features
  5. The semantics of this language are much different than other languages I know.

All items

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