programming languages

Rank

This language is built on a small core of orthogonal features

Based on responses from 2265 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language is built on a small core of orthogonal features" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Scheme
  2. Io
  3. Coq
  4. Forth
  5. Standard ML
  6. Prolog
  7. APL
  8. Smalltalk
  9. Lua
  10. Haskell

Bottom items

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

Most similar to

  1. This language has a very coherent design
  2. This language is minimal
  3. Learning this language improved my ability as a programmer
  4. Learning this language significantly changed how I use other languages.
  5. The semantics of this language are much different than other languages I know.

Most dissimilar from

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

All items

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