programming languages

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This is a low level language

Based on responses from 2626 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This is a low level language" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Assembler
  2. Forth
  3. C
  4. C++
  5. Fortran
  6. Pascal
  7. Objective C
  8. D
  9. Go
  10. Ada

Bottom items

  1. Prolog
  2. Haskell
  3. Scala
  4. R
  5. Coq
  6. Standard ML
  7. J
  8. Clojure
  9. Ruby
  10. Javascript

Most similar to

  1. I would use this language for writing embedded programs
  2. This language allows me to write programs where I know exactly what they are doing under the hood
  3. Writing code in this language is a lot of work
  4. There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language
  5. Programs written in this language tend to be efficient

Most dissimilar from

  1. This is a high level language
  2. This language excels at symbolic manipulation
  3. I find this language easy to prototype in
  4. This language is expressive
  5. I use this language out of choice

All items

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