programming languages

Rank

This language is large

Based on responses from 2322 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language is large" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. C++
  2. Ada
  3. C#
  4. Java
  5. Common Lisp
  6. Perl
  7. Scala
  8. D
  9. PHP
  10. Cobol

Bottom items

  1. Assembler
  2. AWK
  3. Forth
  4. Scheme
  5. Lua
  6. Io
  7. TCL
  8. Prolog
  9. Shell
  10. C

Most similar to

  1. This language has many features which feel "tacked on"
  2. Libraries in this language tend to be well documented.
  3. Third-party libraries are readily available, well-documented, and of high quality
  4. I usually use this language on projects with many other members
  5. There are many good tools for this language

Most dissimilar from

  1. This language is minimal
  2. This language is built on a small core of orthogonal features
  3. This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it
  4. I enjoy playing with this language but would never use it for "real code"
  5. This language is best for very small projects

All items

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