programming languages

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This language is likely to be a passing fad

Based on responses from 2272 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language is likely to be a passing fad" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Groovy
  2. Go
  3. Clojure
  4. Factor
  5. D
  6. Scala
  7. REBOL
  8. Delphi
  9. PHP
  10. Io

Bottom items

  1. Assembler
  2. C
  3. Fortran
  4. C++
  5. Scheme
  6. Shell
  7. Common Lisp
  8. Python
  9. Mathematica
  10. APL

Most similar to

  1. I would use this language for a desktop GUI project
  2. I would use this language as a scripting language embedded inside a larger application
  3. This language would be good for teaching children to write software
  4. I would use this language for casual scripting
  5. It is easy to tell at a glance what code in this language does

Most dissimilar from

  1. This language is likely to be around for a very long time
  2. Programs written in this language will usually work in future versions of the language
  3. I learned this language early in my career as a programmer
  4. This language has a high quality implementation
  5. This language is unusually bad for beginners

All items

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