Comparison and Review
1% the Code
Compares colorForth and C: Chuck Moore, father of Forth, expects colorForth applications to need only 1% the code of C programs. No code samples.
99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall
Shows source code implementation for the same simple program across over 250 different programming languages.
A Comparison of C++, FORTRAN 90 and Oberon-2 for Scientific Programming
The report concludes by a personal assessment of the three languages with respect to the numerical context. By Bernd Mösli. The reader's experience in scientific programming in C …
Accumulator Generator
Compares canonical solutions to same problem as code samples in: C++, Dylan, E, Erlang, Haskell, JavaScript, Lisp (Arc, Common, Goo, Scheme), Lua, Maple, Mathematica, Oz-Mozart, Ne…
ACM "Hello, World" Project
List of the famous "Hello, World!" programming teaching program, in hundreds of different languages.
Ada 95, Java, and C++
Some think Java is like C++. Usual C++ idioms do not apply to Java as it is not a C++ superset or subset; Java is a derivation with many modifications, extensions. Both language sy…
Ada Versus Modula-3
Compares similarities and differences, by user of both languages.
Ada, C, C++, and Java vs. The Steelman
Compares 4 programming languages (Ada 95, C, C++, Java) with the needs of "Steelman", original 1978 requirements document for Ada language. Big detailed table.
Advanced Programming Language Design
Book compares over 70 languages, and main classes: imperative, functional, object-oriented, dataflow, concurrent, declarative, aggregate. By Raphael Finkel, Addison-Wesley.
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]
An Empirical Comparison of C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Rexx, and Tcl for a Search/string-processing Program
One set of requirements, 80 implementations, coded by 74 different programmers in various languages, compared for properties: run time, memory use, source text length, comment dens…
An Interactive Historical Roster of Computer Languages
Encyclopedia of over 8,000 languages, full verified references, code samples, big bibliography, biographical-institutional material, 4,000 language family tree.
Are Scripting Languages the Wave of the Future?
Programming guru, Robert Martin, on languages of the coming decade. [ITworld.com]
ASP vs. PHP
Brief text compares website building languages ASP, PHP on several points. [WebProNews]
Benchmark Execution Speed of LabVIEW Applications
Compares 2 LabVIEW versions with C: brief text, 1 table. [National Instruments]
Beyond Java?
Compares Java and Dylan, with examples from building two CORBA IDL compilers. Topics include: multiple inheritance, multi-argument dispatch, unified object model, extensible syntax…
C# from a Java Developer's Perspective
Thorough article by Dare Obasanjo, treats most similarities and differences between the two languages: features in Java and not in C#, and features in C# and not in Java. Text, tab…
C# Strikes a Chord
Compares 4 languages: C, C++, C#, Java. Shows family genealogy. [Dr. Dobb's Journal]
C#: A Language Alternative or Just J--?, Part 1
Compares C# to Java, describes features and design trade-offs, places C# in context of broader Microsoft .Net strategy. Text, tables, code samples, links. By Mark Johnson. First ar…
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