This language is well documented

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Top items

  1. Java
  2. Python
  3. C#
  4. C
  5. REBOL
  6. Objective C
  7. Haskell
  8. PHP
  9. Haxe
  10. Perl

Bottom items

  1. D
  2. Shell
  3. Cobol
  4. Assembler
  5. Io
  6. AWK
  7. Forth
  8. Coq
  9. R
  10. Prolog

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Most similar to

  1. The resources for learning this language are of high quality
  2. Libraries in this language tend to be well documented.
  3. There are many good tools for this language
  4. Third-party libraries are readily available, well-documented, and of high quality
  5. There are many good commercial tools for this language

Most dissimilar from

  1. This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it
  2. The semantics of this language are much different than other languages I know.
  3. This language matches it's problem domain particularly well.
  4. I enjoy playing with this language but would never use it for "real code"
  5. This language is minimal

All items

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