Based on responses from 2561 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language has a very rigid idea of how things should be done" describes different programming languages.
This language has a very rigid idea of how things should be done
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Most similar to
- This language has a strong static type system
- If my code in this language successfully compiles, there is a good chance my code is correct.
- 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 encourages writing code that is easy to maintain.
Most dissimilar from
- It is too easy to write code in this language that looks like it does one thing but actually does something else
- This language is very flexible
- I would use this language as a scripting language embedded inside a larger application
- This language is best for very small projects
- This language makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot
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- Ada
- Cobol
- Eiffel
- Haskell
- Java
- Pascal
- Fortran
- Erlang
- Agda
- O'Caml
- Objective C
- Prolog
- Haxe
- D
- Coq
- Standard ML
- Matlab
- AWK
- APL
- Go
- C#
- R
- Mathematica
- Python
- Clojure
- Shell
- Factor
- Visual Basic
- REBOL
- F#
- Mozart-Oz
- Delphi
- Scala
- C++
- Smalltalk
- C
- TCL
- Scheme
- PHP
- Groovy
- Ruby
- Io
- J
- Assembler
- ELisp
- Forth
- Lua
- Javascript
- Common Lisp
- Perl