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This language has unusual features that I often miss when using other languages

Based on responses from 2312 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language has unusual features that I often miss when using other languages" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Haskell
  2. Coq
  3. O'Caml
  4. Common Lisp
  5. Clojure
  6. F#
  7. Scala
  8. Erlang
  9. Scheme
  10. Standard ML

Bottom items

  1. Cobol
  2. Visual Basic
  3. Assembler
  4. Fortran
  5. Pascal
  6. PHP
  7. Delphi
  8. Shell
  9. C
  10. Java

Most similar to

  1. I find code written in this language very elegant
  2. I enjoy using this language
  3. This language excels at symbolic manipulation
  4. Learning this language significantly changed how I use other languages.
  5. This language is expressive

Most dissimilar from

  1. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  2. This language is frequently used for applications it isn't suitable for
  3. I often get angry when writing code in this language
  4. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years
  5. There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language

All items

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