This is a mainstream language

Based on responses from 1289 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This is a mainstream language" describes different items

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Top items

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

Bottom items

  1. Forth
  2. Prolog
  3. Standard ML
  4. Scheme
  5. Erlang
  6. O'Caml
  7. Haskell
  8. Io
  9. ELisp
  10. APL

What's going on here?

We've taken all your individual votes and done our best to assemble them into an overall ordering of items. It wasn't easy! There are all sorts of internal contradictions in majority voting.

For items where we've got a lot of responses the numbers should be pretty good. For the rest you can probably just expect them to hang around the middle of the rankings wondering what they're doing here.

Most similar to

  1. I know many other people who use this language
  2. This language is frequently used for applications it isn't suitable for
  3. I usually use this language on projects with many other members
  4. There are many good commercial tools for this language
  5. This language has many features which feel "tacked on"

Most dissimilar from

  1. This language is built on a small core of orthogonal features
  2. The semantics of this language are much different than other languages I know.
  3. I enjoy playing with this language but would never use it for "real code"
  4. I often feel like I am not smart enough to write this language
  5. This language has a very coherent design

All items

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