This language is likely to be a passing fad

Based on responses from 1872 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language is likely to be a passing fad" describes different items

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Top items

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

Bottom items

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

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

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. Io
  10. PHP
  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