This language is large

Based on responses from 1900 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language is large" describes different items

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Top items

  1. C++
  2. C#
  3. Ada
  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

What's going on here?

We've taken all your individual votes and done our best to assemble them into an overall ordering of items. It wasn't easy! There are all sorts of internal contradictions in majority voting.

For items where we've got a lot of responses the numbers should be pretty good. For the rest you can probably just expect them to hang around the middle of the rankings wondering what they're doing here.

Most similar to

  1. Libraries in this language tend to be well documented.
  2. This language has many features which feel "tacked on"
  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. This is a mainstream 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 has a niche in which it is great

All items

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