Languages

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A neutral conceptual analysis for those who know one language and want to learn about others.

A brief description and chronology of the APL programming language, by Jan Bakker. Includes code examples and references.

Home of the brave Ada programmers - an Ada resource site.

Contains resources, a search, news and clips.

There is an Algol 68 interpreter for DOS and Linux here.

Dick Grune's Algol 68 directory with test sets, transput, and a Snobol interpreter.

Contains links and explanations.

Assembly Language technical support forums and mutual help system for computer professionals. Selling and recruiting forbidden.

On this site you will find various resources ranging from tutorials, documentation up to actual Linux and Unix tools written in assembly language.

Mjølner Informatics Report.

An integrated GUI debugger for the development of software using the Brainfuck programming language.

Makes software development tools which target database development; including award winning Clarion 4GL system for Windows.

resource site for Cobol developers. Cobol related news, programming tips, resources and everything Cobol.

Find out how to do bit-manipulation, display a field in hex-dump format, access a parameter provided from JCL and other tricks. It is all done in COBOL and the source code may be downloaded.

A COBOL-like interpreted language with specialized syntax for file processing, CGI programming, and internetworking.

Collection of self-reproducing programs: each outputs a copy of its own source code; about 60 languages.

Published internal study, of Ericsson AXD 301 ATM switch project, using Erlang, C, C++, Java. Results: programmer productivity, code error rates, roughly proportional to source code size.

TOM attempts to address flaws in these languages: C++, Cecil, Common Lisp, Eiffel, Java, Objective-C, Smalltalk.

Brief comparison Curl with High Level assembler, BCX, Dark Basic, Mono (C#/.Net implementation), Python, Squeak, XBasic/XBlite. Curl applet examples.

Five short essays compare C (and C++ by extension) to Fortran: Why C is Not a Good Numerical Language, Why C is Not a Good First Language, C's Poor Loop Constructs, C's Pointers and Optimisation, Optimisation through Directives.

Display time as English sentence, coded in: AWK, C, ICI, Icon, JavaScript, Lite/mSQL, PHP3, Pike, Python, REBOL, Rexx, Ruby, SLang, Spanner. Tested on only Linux (all) and AmigaOS (C and Rexx versions).

Pro-Forth text explains why C is used more than Forth.

Documentation, syntax highlighting files for various editors and IDEs, links to Go libraries and bindings to C libraries, etc.

Java applet that solves non-linear real arithmetic constraints.

Generic Constraint Development Environment. Constraint solver implemented as C++ library. Main goals: modifiability, extensibility, speed. Features: integer and set variables, large constraint set, copying-based search. [Open Source, BSD]

Language and set of technologies providing a full alternative to data access and manipulation abilities of .NET; full foundation for Automated Application Development (AAD).

Real-time graphical dataflow programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing.

Collected information on approximately 2350 computer programming languages, including timeline.

Big collection programming language implementations.

For those who think the world begins and ends with C++ or Java, here's an incomplete list of languages with descriptions.

Makes Baltie line of educational, graphic, object-oriented visual languages, for kids through adults; DOS and Windows versions. Czech Republic.

Community site for language users with articles, libraries, tools, packages, blogs, polls, glossary, FAQ, links.

Growing article, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]

Fortran 90/95/2003 discussion group, with archived messages. Members of the Fortran standards committee and other experts participate.

List of resources by Clive Page.

Group provides an open forum for Fortran users, distributes information about Fortran, promotes the language, and encourages its development. Describes goals and activities of group and contains presentations from meetings.

Short summary, large discussion. [Slashdot.org]

General purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way.

Parallel functional language to program reactive systems and parallel algorithms using distributed memory. Extends Haskell, but overrules lazy evaluation whenever needed to support parallelism.

A variety of research resources on functional programming languages, implementation, and applications of functional programming languages.

oZone3D's tutorials for using GLSL for dynamic texturing. Includes environment mapping, glass mapping and alpha mapping.

Wiki page, with pros, cons, comments, links, at Cunningham and Cunningham, Inc.

Information, resources and references on IDL astronomy user library.

Unofficial Intercal language homepage, maintained by C-Intercal implementor Eric S. Raymond. Documentation, implementations, papers, and tools.

This was author's first exercise in INTERCAL programming. It counts down from 500 all the way down to one. It's that simple!

Provides a single, common interface for a wide variety of JavaScript map APIs.

Encyclopaedia article about the language. Covers its history, features, syntax, security, tools and criticisms.

Awesome interactive globes for the web.

JavaScript Canvas Library.