This language excels at symbolic manipulation

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Top items

  1. Common Lisp
  2. Scheme
  3. Haskell
  4. O'Caml
  5. Standard ML
  6. Mathematica
  7. Clojure
  8. F#
  9. Prolog
  10. Haxe

Bottom items

  1. Assembler
  2. Shell
  3. Fortran
  4. Pascal
  5. C
  6. Visual Basic
  7. Delphi
  8. PHP
  9. C++
  10. Java

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  1. This is a high level language
  2. This language has unusual features that I often miss when using other languages
  3. This language is expressive
  4. I would like to write more of this language than I currently do
  5. I find code written in this language very elegant

Most dissimilar from

  1. There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language
  2. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  3. This is a low level language
  4. This language is frequently used for applications it isn't suitable for
  5. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years

All items

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