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This language excels at text processing

Based on responses from 2444 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language excels at text processing" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Perl
  2. AWK
  3. Ruby
  4. Python
  5. ELisp
  6. REBOL
  7. Common Lisp
  8. Shell
  9. Smalltalk
  10. Haxe

Bottom items

  1. J
  2. Assembler
  3. Fortran
  4. Cobol
  5. Pascal
  6. C
  7. Visual Basic
  8. Delphi
  9. Objective C
  10. Matlab

Most similar to

  1. I would use this language for casual scripting
  2. I would use this language as a scripting language embedded inside a larger application
  3. I would use this language for a web project
  4. This language is very flexible
  5. I find this language easy to prototype in

Most dissimilar from

  1. Writing code in this language is a lot of work
  2. It's unusual for me to discover unfamiliar features
  3. I learned this language early in my career as a programmer
  4. Code written in this language tends to be verbose
  5. I would use this language for writing embedded programs

All items

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