programming languages

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

Based on responses from 2298 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 programming languages.

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

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. This language is good for distributed computing
  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 sometimes embarrassed to admit to my peers that I know this language
  4. This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it
  5. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years

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. Groovy
  22. Javascript
  23. Java
  24. APL
  25. Factor
  26. C++
  27. C
  28. Lua
  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