This language is likely to have a strong influence on future languages

Based on responses from 1884 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language is likely to have a strong influence on future languages" describes different items

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Top items

  1. Haskell
  2. Clojure
  3. Erlang
  4. Agda
  5. Coq
  6. Scala
  7. Scheme
  8. Common Lisp
  9. Mozart-Oz
  10. F#

Bottom items

  1. Assembler
  2. AWK
  3. Cobol
  4. Visual Basic
  5. Fortran
  6. Shell
  7. PHP
  8. Forth
  9. TCL
  10. Io

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 enjoy using this language
  2. This language encourages writing reusable code.
  3. This language has unusual features that I often miss when using other languages
  4. I can imagine this will be a popular language in twenty years time
  5. I find code written in this language very elegant

Most dissimilar from

  1. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  2. I often get angry when writing code in this language
  3. I am reluctant to admit to knowing this language
  4. I am sometimes embarrassed to admit to my peers that I know this language
  5. This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it

All items

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