Languages
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Ada95, Java, and C++
Some people think Java is like C++, but usual C++ idioms do not carry over to Java because Java is not a C++ superset or subset; Java is a derivation with many modifications, extensions. The language's syntax is alike, but semantics and philosophy is very different. http://www.adahome.com/Resources/Languages/chart3.html |
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History and Comparing Programming Languages
The files at this site compare programming language statements in several different languages tracing the statement from early languages to present languages. http://www.gavilan.edu/csis/languages/history.html |
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Timing Trials, or, the Trials of Timing: Experiments with Scripting and User-Interface Languages
By Brian Kernighan, Christopher Van Wyk. Compares how fast C, Awk, Perl, Tcl, Java, Visual Basic, Limbo, Scheme, run a range of representative tasks. Text, tables, graphs, code samples. http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/bwk/interps/pap.html |
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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 or FORTRAN would be advantageous. http://www.arithmetica.ch/Oberon/CFORTRANOberon.nhtml |
