This language has a wide variety of agreed-upon conventions, which are generally adhered to reasonably well, and which increase my productivity

Based on responses from 2028 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language has a wide variety of agreed-upon conventions, which are generally adhered to reasonably well, and which increase my productivity" describes different items

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Top items

  1. Python
  2. Java
  3. Standard ML
  4. Go
  5. Smalltalk
  6. Ruby
  7. C#
  8. APL
  9. Haskell
  10. Clojure

Bottom items

  1. Assembler
  2. AWK
  3. Shell
  4. Visual Basic
  5. Prolog
  6. Forth
  7. PHP
  8. Perl
  9. Fortran
  10. Mozart-Oz

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Most similar to

  1. This language encourages writing reusable code.
  2. I rarely have difficulty abstracting patterns I find in my code
  3. This language is likely to have a strong influence on future languages
  4. This language has well-organized libraries with consistent, carefully thought-out interfaces
  5. This language encourages writing code that is easy to maintain.

Most dissimilar from

  1. This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it
  2. I often get angry when writing code in this language
  3. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years
  4. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  5. I am sometimes embarrassed to admit to my peers that I know this language

All items

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