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This language is expressive

Based on responses from 394500 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language is expressive" describes different programming languages.

Top items

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

Bottom items

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

All items

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