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Programming Languages Mini-howto
Briefly compares major Linux programming languages: C, C++, Fortran, Java, Lisp, Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl; by Risto S. Varanka.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Programming-Languages.html
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TMXxine Languages
Brief comparison Curl with High Level assembler, BCX, Dark Basic, Mono (C#/.Net implementation), Python, Squeak, XBasic/XBlite. Curl applet examples.
http://www.cyber-shaktipat.org/relax/languages.html
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99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall
Shows source code implementation for the same simple program across over 250 different programming languages.
http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/
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Comparisons of Tcl with Other Systems
Many comparisons between Tcl/Tk and other similar systems, most copied from comp.lang.tcl.
http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/sai/ss96/uxdb2/comparison.html
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Survey of Programming Languages Associated with the Web
General feature comparisons, explanations.
http://faculty.frostburg.edu/cosc/htracy/cosc120/MODULES120/NetPL/PL_Net.htm
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An Empirical Comparison of C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Rexx, and Tcl
By Lutz Prechelt. Neutral, quantitative analysis of 7 languages in title, for 7 variables, via 80 implementations of the same requirement set. PDF format. [IEEE Computer]
http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/~prechelt/Biblio/jccpprt_computer2000.pdf
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The C Family of Languages
Interview with Dennis Ritchie, Bjarne Stroustrup, James Gosling.
http://www.gotw.ca/publications/c_family_interview.htm
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The Case against C
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.
http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~mjr/C/
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Water Comparisons
Two medium length documents compare object-oriented languages: Water with ConciseXML syntax, to JSP (JavaServer Pages) and Java; 1 brief list compares Water to PHP.
http://waterlanguage.org/Comparisons.html
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Languages Versus D
Growing table compares D, C, C++, C#, Java, Delphi, Python, Perl, Eiffel, Sather, Smalltalk, Lisp/CLOS, Ada. Many clarifying comments below. [Wiki4D, Open Content]
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguagesVersusD
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