Based on responses from 1705 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language encourages writing code that is easy to maintain." describes different programming languages.
This language encourages writing code that is easy to maintain.
Bottom items
Most similar to
- This language encourages writing reusable code.
- Code written in this language tends to be very reliable
- When I write code in this language I can be very sure it is correct
- This language has well-organized libraries with consistent, carefully thought-out interfaces
- Code written in this language is very readable
Most dissimilar from
- This language makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot
- I often get angry when writing code in this language
- This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it
- The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
- I learned this language early in my career as a programmer
All items
- Eiffel
- Haskell
- Scala
- O'Caml
- Ada
- F#
- Python
- Smalltalk
- Clojure
- C#
- Go
- Erlang
- Haxe
- D
- Java
- Agda
- Scheme
- Groovy
- ActionScript
- Standard ML
- Coq
- Mozart-Oz
- Ruby
- Common Lisp
- Factor
- REBOL
- Mathematica
- Io
- Delphi
- Pascal
- Cobol
- Objective C
- Prolog
- APL
- Lua
- TCL
- Forth
- ELisp
- C++
- Matlab
- C
- Javascript
- R
- Fortran
- J
- AWK
- Visual Basic
- PHP
- Shell
- Perl
- Assembler