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This language is well suited for an agile development approach using short iterations.

Based on responses from 1736 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language is well suited for an agile development approach using short iterations." describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Smalltalk
  2. Ruby
  3. Io
  4. Python
  5. Lua
  6. Scala
  7. Mozart-Oz
  8. Common Lisp
  9. Clojure
  10. Haskell

Bottom items

  1. Assembler
  2. Fortran
  3. Pascal
  4. C
  5. C++
  6. Eiffel
  7. Prolog
  8. Cobol
  9. Objective C
  10. Coq

Most similar to

  1. This language is very flexible
  2. I rarely have difficulty abstracting patterns I find in my code
  3. This language is expressive
  4. I find this language easy to prototype in
  5. I would use this language as a scripting language embedded inside a larger application

Most dissimilar from

  1. Writing code in this language is a lot of work
  2. I often get angry when writing code in this language
  3. There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language
  4. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years
  5. This language is unusually bad for beginners

All items

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