Favorite Programming Language Features

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Programming Language Features

Programming Language Features 03/13/2003 10:23 AM
I'm working on a series of classes for intermediate-level programmers to take their programming up to the next notch, and I'd like input from some of you.

Favorite Programming Contests?

Favorite Programming Contests? 06/22/2005 02:52 AM
Slashdot Jun 21 2005 9:34PM GMT

My Favorite Features in Perl 6

My Favorite Features in Perl 6 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
So, we saw Damian Conway and Larry Wall present "Introducing the Perl 6 Language" this morning. A very good talk,...

The Qu Programming Language 1.00

The Qu Programming Language 1.00 09/06/2004 02:40 PM
A full-featured object oriented programming language.

Erc programming language

Erc programming language 12/30/2004 04:24 PM
Description of link-orientation

Kew programming language

Kew programming language 01/23/2004 07:36 PM
Kew 0.2.X roadmap

XL Programming Language

XL Programming Language 09/25/2004 03:55 PM
XL Compiler version 0

The Qu Programming Language 1.01

The Qu Programming Language 1.01 09/16/2004 09:22 PM
A full-featured object oriented programming language.

Whidbey ADO.NET beta 1 has shipped.
Favorite features

Whidbey ADO.NET beta 1 has shipped.
Favorite features 07/03/2004 01:45 PM
Angel Saenz-Badillos discusses ADO.NET enhancements in .NET 2.0:

Felix Programming Language 1.0.4

Felix Programming Language 1.0.4 11/18/2003 01:25 AM
A high performance, statically typed scripting language.

x++: XML as a programming language
(BYTE)

x++: XML as a programming language
(BYTE) 11/12/2002 06:47 PM

The Pluk programming language

The Pluk programming language 04/18/2004 11:12 AM
New release

The Perfect Programming Language

The Perfect Programming Language 06/22/2005 01:56 AM

Being Popular: Here's an extremely long but interesting essay from Paul Graham about how to design the perfect programming language. He has no plans to do this, of course, but in considering the question he covers a lot of ground on why certain languages have thrived and others haven't.

For example:

To become popular, a programming language has to be the scripting language of a popular system. Fortran and Cobol were the scripting languages of early IBM mainframes. C was the scripting language of Unix, and so, later, was Perl. Tcl is the scripting language of Tk. Java and Javascript are intended to be the scripting languages of web browsers.

And:

One thing hackers like is brevity. Hackers are lazy, in the same way that mathematicians and modernist architects are lazy: they hate anything extraneous. It would not be far from the truth to say that a hacker about to write a program decides what language to use, at least subconsciously, based on the total number of characters he'll have to type.

And of course:

There is one thing more important than brevity to a hacker: being able to do what you want. In the history of programming languages a surprising amount of effort has gone into preventing programmers from doing things considered to be improper. This is a dangerously presumptuous plan. How can the language designer know what the programmer is going to need to do?

Something to know: Paul Graham hates Java, so if you're a Java programmer, prepared to be offended. (It was a comment to that post by Joe Langeway that led me to this essay.)

PROSE Programming Language

PROSE Programming Language 02/16/2004 08:07 PM
First Specification Released

Wrapl Programming Language

Wrapl Programming Language 09/08/2004 08:55 AM
Alpha Version Release

The Centum Programming Language

The Centum Programming Language 12/28/2004 11:35 PM
Welcome IvoryDome

The Algae Programming Language

The Algae Programming Language 12/10/2003 02:21 AM
algae-4.3.3 released

What Programming Language Would You
Learn?

What Programming Language Would You
Learn? 10/25/2002 07:23 AM
At this point in time, what's the best language to learn for net work?

The Tesla Programming Language

The Tesla Programming Language 09/12/2004 11:27 PM
Tesla Version 0.10

The Bistro Programming Language

The Bistro Programming Language 04/18/2004 12:21 AM
DDJ Apr 18 2004 5:12AM GMT

Why C Is Not My Favourite Programming
Language

Why C Is Not My Favourite Programming
Language 02/10/2004 02:46 AM
Brian Kernighan, the documenter of the C programming language, wrote a rant entitled Why Pascal is Not My Favourite Programming Language. I can picture him thinking to himself smugly as he repeatedly strikes facetiously at Pascal by describing a few of its small flaws over and over again. Unfortunately, time has not been kind to Kernighan's tract. Pascal has matured and grown in leaps and bounds, becoming a premier commercial language. Meanwhile, C has continued to stagnate over the last 35 years with few fundamental improvements made. It's time to redress the balance; here's why C is now owned by Pascal. - James Joyce. James appears to be more fond of PHP than C. No objections there! And if you don't take it all too seriously, the responses are quite amusing.

Push Programming Language

Push Programming Language 08/21/2004 06:21 PM
push-3.0.2

What kind of programming language are
you using in this Bot?

What kind of programming language are
you using in this Bot? 08/22/2004 05:37 PM
TechTree Aug 22 2004 8:37PM GMT

The Squirrel programming language 1.0
RC1

The Squirrel programming language 1.0
RC1 08/23/2004 02:21 AM
A light-weight scripting language.

The Squirrel programming language

The Squirrel programming language 11/04/2003 02:00 AM
Squirrel 0.6 alpha has been released

The Squirrel programming language 1.0
RC2

The Squirrel programming language 1.0
RC2 08/29/2004 04:16 PM
A light-weight scripting language.

How To Pick A Programming Language

How To Pick A Programming Language 08/16/2004 08:37 AM
How To Pick A Programming Language

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Q - Equational Programming Language

Q - Equational Programming Language 12/15/2003 02:12 PM
Q CVS Repository Now Online

PATH programming language 0.21

PATH programming language 0.21 01/27/2004 08:42 PM
A unique two-dimensional programming language.

"How To Pick A Programming Language"

"How To Pick A Programming Language" 08/17/2004 09:12 AM

Programming Language Popularity Survey

Programming Language Popularity Survey 09/25/2004 05:11 PM
Slashdot Sep 25 2004 8:11PM GMT

Io programming language 2004-07-06
(Development)

Io programming language 2004-07-06
(Development) 07/08/2004 12:09 PM
A small prototype-based programming language.

The Squirrel programming language 1.0
beta 4

The Squirrel programming language 1.0
beta 4 07/12/2004 12:39 AM
A light-weight scripting language.

"Why C Is Not My Favourite Programming
Language || kuro5hin.org"

"Why C Is Not My Favourite Programming
Language || kuro5hin.org" 02/10/2004 09:26 PM

The Squirrel programming language 1.0
beta 2

The Squirrel programming language 1.0
beta 2 04/20/2004 03:40 PM
A light-weight scripting language.

Measuring Programming Language
Popularity Again

Measuring Programming Language
Popularity Again 01/05/2003 12:10 PM
To keep up with employment trends in programming languages I have searched the most popular job search engines (monster.com, dice.com, and hotjobs.com) to catagorize the number of job listings by the programming languages mentioned in each listing. Each search engine is different. As such, a description of the search techniques is also presented. -- Eric Turner

As a comparison, here are the PHP equivalents taken 2 days after the above article was posted.

PHP Jobs (US)
  189      Monster.com 
  244      HotJobs.com
   30      Dice.com
=====
  463
=====

From this rough guide PHP jobs are about as popular as Ada or Fortran. Pretty good company for such a young language. Also if you assume that all web-based programmer jobs require knowledge of Javascript (1878 jobs), then the percentage of web developer jobs that require PHP is about 463/1878 = 25%.

If you have more statistical diarrhea, let me know. I have toilet paper ready.

"tri" FuzzyBlog< /a> sees a half-empty glass, but still prefers digging ditches to ditching PHP.

"zeldman.newsy"

Io programming language 2003-11-17
(Development)

Io programming language 2003-11-17
(Development) 11/17/2003 09:21 AM
A small prototype-based programming language.

The Squirrel programming language 1.0
beta 3

The Squirrel programming language 1.0
beta 3 05/24/2004 02:51 AM
A light-weight scripting language.

Emerald Distributed Programming Language

Emerald Distributed Programming Language 01/05/2005 11:36 AM
Emerald Programming Language released as Open Source
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