This language has well-organized libraries with consistent, carefully thought-out interfaces

Based on responses from 1893 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language has well-organized libraries with consistent, carefully thought-out interfaces" describes different items

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Top items

  1. Clojure
  2. Smalltalk
  3. C#
  4. Haskell
  5. Eiffel
  6. F#
  7. Scala
  8. Python
  9. Java
  10. Ruby

Bottom items

  1. Assembler
  2. AWK
  3. Shell
  4. PHP
  5. Pascal
  6. Forth
  7. APL
  8. Prolog
  9. Fortran
  10. Javascript

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Most similar to

  1. This language encourages writing reusable code.
  2. This language is best for very large projects
  3. This language encourages writing code that is easy to maintain.
  4. It is easy to debug programs written in this language when it goes wrong
  5. This language excels at concurrency

Most dissimilar from

  1. This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it
  2. This language makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot
  3. I learned this language early in my career as a programmer
  4. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  5. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years

All items

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