This language is very flexible

Based on responses from 2180 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language is very flexible" describes different items

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Top items

  1. Common Lisp
  2. Clojure
  3. Ruby
  4. Scala
  5. Scheme
  6. Io
  7. Python
  8. Perl
  9. Smalltalk
  10. Groovy

Bottom items

  1. Fortran
  2. Pascal
  3. Visual Basic
  4. Coq
  5. Cobol
  6. AWK
  7. Assembler
  8. Matlab
  9. Prolog
  10. Delphi

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Most similar to

  1. This language is well suited for an agile development approach using short iterations.
  2. I would use this language as a scripting language embedded inside a larger application
  3. I find this language easy to prototype in
  4. I rarely have difficulty abstracting patterns I find in my code
  5. This language is expressive

Most dissimilar from

  1. Writing code in this language is a lot of work
  2. This language has an annoying syntax
  3. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years
  4. I learned this language early in my career as a programmer
  5. Code written in this language tends to be verbose

All items

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