programming languages

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This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it

Based on responses from 2530 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. APL
  2. Assembler
  3. AWK
  4. Cobol
  5. Matlab
  6. Coq
  7. Prolog
  8. Shell
  9. Mathematica
  10. ELisp

Bottom items

  1. Python
  2. Java
  3. Scala
  4. Clojure
  5. C#
  6. O'Caml
  7. Ruby
  8. C++
  9. Haskell
  10. Common Lisp

Most similar to

  1. This language has a niche in which it is great
  2. This language has an annoying syntax
  3. This language matches it's problem domain particularly well.
  4. This language is minimal
  5. This language is unusually bad for beginners

Most dissimilar from

  1. The resources for learning this language are of high quality
  2. I would use this language for writing server programs
  3. This language is best for very large projects
  4. This language encourages writing reusable code.
  5. I would use this language for mobile applications

All items

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