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This language is minimal

Based on responses from 2374 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language is minimal" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Forth
  2. Io
  3. Lua
  4. Scheme
  5. J
  6. REBOL
  7. Assembler
  8. C
  9. AWK
  10. Clojure

Bottom items

  1. C++
  2. C#
  3. Java
  4. Perl
  5. PHP
  6. Ada
  7. Visual Basic
  8. Cobol
  9. Scala
  10. Ruby

Most similar to

  1. This language is built on a small core of orthogonal features
  2. I enjoy playing with this language but would never use it for "real code"
  3. This language is easier to use for it's problem domain by removing unneeded expressiveness (such as not being Turing complete).
  4. If this language didn't exist, I would have trouble finding a satisfactory replacement
  5. I would use this language for writing embedded programs

Most dissimilar from

  1. This language is large
  2. This language has many features which feel "tacked on"
  3. There are many good tools for this language
  4. Third-party libraries are readily available, well-documented, and of high quality
  5. Libraries in this language tend to be well documented.

All items

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