Dictionary of Programming Languages

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by nfnaaron • 16 years ago

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nfnaaron• 16 years ago

I stumbled across the Dictionary of Programming Languages, and HOPL http://hopl.murdoch.edu.au/ while I was trying to figure out why I pronounce "a = b" as "a gets b" rather than "a equals b".

I think I pronounce it that way because the first time I ever heard anyone speak out loud in code a lot was in a Modula-2 class in college. I think they say "gets" for ":=" in that region of the programming world.

I try to remember to say "equals" for "=" when I read code in front of other people, but sometimes I slip and get funny looks. But assignment, whatever characters are used to write it, is pronounced "gets" in my brain.

zephyrfalcon• 16 years ago

I always love learning about new programming languages... One of the problems with lists like these, though, is that they are necessarily limited. It's not feasible to add everybody's pet/toy/experimental language. Question is, at what point does a new language (implementation) stop being "trivial"?

For example, recently I discovered the V programming language [http://code.google.com/p/v-language/]. Should this language be in the list? The implementation is nowhere near stable nor mature; on the other hand, it has some interesting ideas to make concatenative languages more palatable, which might make it non-trivial.

Dictionary of Programming Languages

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