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This language has many features which feel "tacked on"

Based on responses from 2298 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language has many features which feel "tacked on"" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. PHP
  2. Perl
  3. C++
  4. Visual Basic
  5. Java
  6. C#
  7. Shell
  8. Cobol
  9. Javascript
  10. Fortran

Bottom items

  1. Assembler
  2. Scheme
  3. Standard ML
  4. Erlang
  5. C
  6. AWK
  7. Lua
  8. Prolog
  9. Forth
  10. Clojure

Most similar to

  1. This is a mainstream language
  2. I know many other people who use this language
  3. This language is large
  4. This language is frequently used for applications it isn't suitable for
  5. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread

Most dissimilar from

  1. This language is built on a small core of orthogonal features
  2. This language is minimal
  3. I enjoy playing with this language but would never use it for "real code"
  4. This language has a very coherent design
  5. Learning this language improved my ability as a programmer

All items

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