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This language has an annoying syntax

Based on responses from 1789 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language has an annoying syntax" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. APL
  2. Cobol
  3. Perl
  4. Assembler
  5. Shell
  6. Visual Basic
  7. PHP
  8. C++
  9. Fortran
  10. Erlang

Bottom items

  1. Python
  2. Scheme
  3. Common Lisp
  4. Haskell
  5. Clojure
  6. Ruby
  7. Smalltalk
  8. Lua
  9. Scala
  10. Io

Most similar to

  1. I often get angry when writing code in this language
  2. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years
  3. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  4. There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language
  5. This language is unusually bad for beginners

Most dissimilar from

  1. This language would be good for teaching children to write software
  2. I rarely have difficulty abstracting patterns I find in my code
  3. This language is expressive
  4. I find code written in this language very elegant
  5. This language encourages writing reusable code.

All items

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