What do most people say for “Name a programming language”?

The usual first answers are Python, JavaScript, Java, C and C plus plus. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.

How many answers are there to “Name a programming language”?

178 in all: 5 on The Tip, 26 Below the Surface, 46 in The Deep, 100 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.

Which answers to “Name a programming language” are the shortest and the longest?

The shortest accepted answer is “B” and the longest is “Visual Basic .NET”.

Science trivia

Name a programming language

“Name a programming language” is one of 31 science prompts in Icillion. Of its 178 accepted answers, 5 are the ones nearly everyone says first; the rest sink deeper the rarer they are.

The tip of the iceberg

These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.

Python
JavaScript
Java
C
C plus plus

One step down

A step further down, worth 25 points each:

C sharp
PHP
Ruby
Swift
Go
Rust
Kotlin
TypeScript
SQL
R
Perl
Scala
MATLAB
Visual Basic
Assembly
Fortran
COBOL
BASIC
Pascal
Lisp
Haskell
Objective-C
Dart
Lua
Scratch
Bash

Answers by level

Level	Accepted answers	Points
The Tip	5	10
Below the Surface	26	25
The Deep	46	50
The Abyss	100	85
Below the Iceberg	1	100

The Deep holds 46 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W and Z. The Abyss has 100 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.

By the numbers

178 answers in total, 11 of them longer than one word.
Shortest: “B”. Longest: “Visual Basic .NET”.
C, P and A are the most common first letters; together they start 27% of the answers.
33 answers can be typed more than one way: “Plankalkul” counts as Plankalkül.