Comparison of programming languages: Difference between revisions

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

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| [[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

| 18-1

| 0

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! {{rh}} | [[Visual&nbsp;BasicBasic_programming_language|BASIC]]

| ?

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

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| ?

| 1963

| 5

| +1

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| Compilation

| [[ALGOL|Algol]], [[BCPL]]

| [[procedural programming|procedural]]

| [[Structured programming|Structured]], [[Procedural programming|Procedural]], [[Flow-driven programming|Flow-driven]]

| Staticstatic, weak

| Early 1970

| 2

| -1

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| Compilation

| [[C programming language|C]], [[Simula programming language|Simula]], [[Algol 68]]

| Principly[[multi-paradigm programming language|multi-paradigm]]: [[Objectimperative programming|imperative]], [[object-oriented programming|Objectobject-oriented]], multiple[[generic paradigmsprogramming|generic]]

| Staticstatic, weak

| 1979

| 3

| +1

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

| [[JIT compilation]]

| Compilation

| [[Java programming language|Java]], [[C++]]

| [[Structuredobject-oriented programming|structured]], [[Imperative programming|imperativeobject-oriented]]

| [[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]]

| 2001

| 7+1

| 0

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

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| ?

| 1959

| 15-3

| -1

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

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| ?

| 1995

| 16

| +9

| -1

! {{rh}} | [[Common Lisp]]

| Interpretation

| [[Lisp programming language|Lisp]], [[Smalltalk]]

| [[Structuredmulti-paradigm programming language|Structuredmulti-paradigm]],: [[Proceduralfunctional programming|Proceduralfunctional]], [[Flowobject-drivenoriented programming|Flowobject-drivenoriented]]

| dynamic

| 1994

| 0?

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

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| ?

| 2000

| 19+10

| +8

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

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| ?

| 1995

| 10-3

| -1

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

| Interpretation/[[JIT compilation]]/[[Dynamic compilation]]

| [[C++]], [[Objective-C]]

| [[Objectobject-oriented programming|Objectobject-oriented]]

| Staticstatic, strong

| 1996

| 1

| +1

|-

! {{rh}} | [[PerlObjective-C]]

| Compilation/[[JIT compilation]]

| [[C programming language|C]], [[Smalltalk]]

| [[Objectobject-oriented programming|Objectobject-oriented]]

| dynamic, strong

| 1986

| ?

| -1

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

| Interpretation

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

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

| ?

| Dynamicdynamic

| 1987

| 6

| -3

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! {{rh}} | [[PHP]]

| Interpretation

| [[Perl programming language|Perl]], [[C programming language|C]]

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

| dynamic, strong

| 1995

| 5?

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

| Interpretation

| [[ABC programming language|ABC]], [[Perl programming language|Perl]]

| [[Objectmulti-paradigm programming language|multi-paradigm]]: [[imperative programming|imperative]], [[object-oriented programming|Objectobject-oriented]], [[functional programming|functional]]

| Dynamicdynamic, strong, [[duck typing|duck]]

| 1990

| 8+1

| 0

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

| Interpretation

| [[Smalltalk]], [[Perl programming language|Perl]]

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

| [[Object-oriented programming|Object-oriented]]

| dynamic, strong, [[duck typing|duck]]

| ?

| 1995

| 20+14

|-

| +10

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

| Interpretation

| [[Lisp programming language|Lisp]]

| [[functional programming|functional]]

| dynamic

| 1970s

| 2?

|-

! {{rh}} | [[Smalltalk]]

| [[JIT compilation]]

| [[Sketchpad]], [[Simula]]

| [[object-oriented programming|object-oriented]]

| dynamic

| 1971

| 3?

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