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This language is good for distributed computing

Based on responses from 2445 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language is good for distributed computing" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Erlang
  2. F#
  3. Scala
  4. Clojure
  5. Mozart-Oz
  6. Go
  7. Haskell
  8. Java
  9. C#
  10. Factor

Bottom items

  1. Assembler
  2. AWK
  3. Shell
  4. Visual Basic
  5. PHP
  6. TCL
  7. Pascal
  8. Delphi
  9. Forth
  10. ELisp

Most similar to

  1. This language excels at concurrency
  2. I would use this language for writing server programs
  3. This language is likely to have a strong influence on future languages
  4. This language is best for very large projects
  5. This language encourages writing reusable code.

Most dissimilar from

  1. This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it
  2. I am sometimes embarrassed to admit to my peers that I know this language
  3. I learned this language early in my career as a programmer
  4. This language makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot
  5. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread

All items

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