programming languages

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This language would be good for teaching children to write software

Based on responses from 1749 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language would be good for teaching children to write software" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Smalltalk
  2. Python
  3. Lua
  4. Scheme
  5. Ruby
  6. Clojure
  7. Pascal
  8. REBOL
  9. Io
  10. Visual Basic

Bottom items

  1. Assembler
  2. Cobol
  3. AWK
  4. Fortran
  5. C++
  6. Shell
  7. Objective C
  8. Perl
  9. Erlang
  10. R

Most similar to

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

Most dissimilar from

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

All items

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