Comparison of programming languages: Difference between revisions

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! Influences

! Principal paradigm

! [[Type_system|Typing discipline]]

! [[Datatype]] model

! Introduced

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! {{rh}} | [[Ada_programming_language|Ada]]

| Compilation

| [[ALGOL|Algol]], [[Pascal]], [[C++]] (Ada 95), [[Smalltalk]] (Ada 95)

| [[multi-paradigm programming language|multi-paradigm]]: [[concurrent programming language|concurrent]], [[distributed programming|distributed]], [[generic programming|generic-programming]], [[imperative programming|imperative]], [[object-oriented programming|object-oriented]]

| [[Type system#Static and dynamic typing|static]], [[Type system#Strong and weak typing|strong]], [[Type system#Safely and unsafely typed systems|safe]], [[Type system#Nominative vs structural typing|nominative]]

| 1983

| -1

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! {{rh}} | [[Basic_programming_language|BASIC]]

| ?

| [[FORTRAN programming language|FORTRAN II]], [[Algol programming language|ALGOL 60]]

| ?

| ?

| 1963

| +1

|-

! {{rh}} | [[C programming language|C]]

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| Static, weak

| Early 1970

| -1

|-

! {{rh}} | [[C++]]

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| Static, weak

| 1979

| +1

|-

! {{rh}} | [[Objective-C_Sharp|C#]]

| Compilation

| [[CJava programming language|C]], [[Smalltalk programming language|SmalltalkC++]]

| Principly [[Object-orientedStructured programming|Object-orientedstructured]], [[Reflection (computer science)|Reflective]], [[Message passingImperative programming|Message passingimperative]]

| [[Type system#Static and dynamic typing|dynamic]], [[Type system#Strong and weak typing|strong]], [[Type system#Safely and unsafely typed systems|both safe and unsafe]], [[Type system#Nominative vs structural typing|nominative]]

| Dynamic and static, weak

| 19862001

| +1

|-

! {{rh}} | [[MathematicaCobol|COBOL]]

| Compilation

| ?

| ?

| ?

| 1959

| -3

|-

!{{rh}} | [[Coldfusion|ColdFusion]]

| Compilation

| ?

| ?

| ?

| 1995

| +9

|-

!{{rh}} | [[D_programming_language|D]]

| Compilation

| [[LISPC++]]

| ?

| ?

| 2000

| +10

|-

!{{rh}} | [[Delphi_programming_language|Delphi]]/[[Kylix_programming_tool|Kylix]]

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ?

| 1995

| -3

|-

! {{rh}} | [[Java programming language|Java]]

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| Static, strong

| 1996

| +1

|-

! {{rh}} | [[Perl]]

| ?

| [[C programming language|C]], [[Unix shell|shell]], [[awk]], [[sed]], [[Lisp programming language|lisp]]

| ?

| Dynamic

| 1987

| -3

|-

! {{rh}} | [[Python programming language|Python]]

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| Dynamic, strong

| 1990

| +1

|-

! {{rh}} | [[Ruby programming language|Ruby]]

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| ?

| 1995

| +14

|-

! {{rh}} | [[Mathematica]]

| Interpretation

| [[LISP]]

| Multiple paradigms

| Dynamic, strong <!-- think so -->

| 1986

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