This language is easier to use for it's problem domain by removing unneeded expressiveness (such as not being Turing complete).

Based on responses from 1258 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language is easier to use for it's problem domain by removing unneeded expressiveness (such as not being Turing complete)." describes different items

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Top items

  1. Agda
  2. AWK
  3. J
  4. Matlab
  5. Prolog
  6. Shell
  7. Mathematica
  8. Scheme
  9. Io
  10. Lua

Bottom items

  1. Assembler
  2. Cobol
  3. C++
  4. Standard ML
  5. Pascal
  6. Objective C
  7. C
  8. Ada
  9. TCL
  10. Mozart-Oz

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Most similar to

  1. This language is best for very small projects
  2. I often write things in this language with the intent of rewriting them in something else later
  3. Code written in this language tends to be terse
  4. This language is minimal
  5. I would use this language for casual scripting

Most dissimilar from

  1. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  2. Code written in this language tends to be verbose
  3. I use a lot of code written in this language which I really don't want to have to make changes to
  4. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years
  5. This is a low level language

All items

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