programming languages

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This language has a niche in which it is great

Based on responses from 2613 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language has a niche in which it is great" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Matlab
  2. Coq
  3. Prolog
  4. Mathematica
  5. Erlang
  6. Assembler
  7. R
  8. AWK
  9. ELisp
  10. J

Bottom items

  1. Io
  2. Java
  3. C++
  4. Mozart-Oz
  5. Pascal
  6. Visual Basic
  7. D
  8. C#
  9. Python
  10. Common Lisp

Most similar to

  1. This language matches it's problem domain particularly well.
  2. This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it
  3. If this language didn't exist, I would have trouble finding a satisfactory replacement
  4. This language is easier to use for it's problem domain by removing unneeded expressiveness (such as not being Turing complete).
  5. This language is minimal

Most dissimilar from

  1. I would use this language for a desktop GUI project
  2. This language is large
  3. This is a low level language
  4. I would use this language for writing server programs
  5. This language has many features which feel "tacked on"

All items

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