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Guidelines for Choosing a Computer Language: Support for the Visionary Organizations
Multipage study compares: 4GL/5GL, 3GL (Ada 95, C, C++, COBOL, FORTRAN, Java, Smalltalk), 2GL (Assembly). Divides language (definition) from traits of products that implement and support it. Several sections, tables, appendixes.
http://archive.adaic.com/docs/reports/lawlis/content.htm
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CLOS, Eiffel, and Sather: A Comparison
References, zipped Postscript, and inlined gifs.
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~sather/Publications/tr-91-047.html
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University of Michigan's Language Guide
Each entry includes history, description, code examples, and references.
http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/
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Comparing Development Costs of C and Ada
Article by Stephen F. Zeigler. Analysis of a case where most variables were controlled enough to make a comparison between development costs (time, error rates, code size, ...) of the 2 languages.
http://www.adaic.com/whyada/ada-vs-c/cada_art.html
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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 syntax are alike, but semantics and philosophy are very different. Java is n
http://www.adahome.com/Resources/Languages/chart3.html
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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.
http://www.adahome.com/History/Steelman/steeltab.htm
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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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What's Wrong with Perl
Author explains what he considers wrong about Perl, presents Python as an alternative. Descriptions, code samples, links.
http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/text/perl.html
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Programming Information from HB
Text descriptions compare C/C++, Java, Pascal, Basic, VeraStream; Oracle; HTML, XML; JavaScript, PHP.
http://www.cybercomm.nl/~broers/programming.html
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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, tables, code, resources.
http://www.25hoursaday.com/CsharpVsJava.html
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