Languages Overview

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Languages Overview

PLEASE NOTE that most of the data are absolutely subjective, they only represent the best of my knowledge. If you have strong (and well documented) objections to make, or you think I've blatantly missed something obvious, drop me a line and I'll be happy to discuss and correct this page.

That said, let's examine how to read the data in the table.

In general, symbols in the table are defined as follows:

	yes
	partially
	no
?	don't know

family defines the programming discipline the language supports. The values are:

P	procedural (or imperative) programming
F	functional programming
L	logic programming

Language		Characteristics						Execution				Platforms
		family	OOP	scripting	open source	IDE		interp.	byte comp.	comp.		Win32	Unix	Mac	AS/400	BeOS	Amiga
AWK		P												?	?	?	?
C		P												?	?	?	?
C++		P						-	-					?	?	?	?
EIFFEL		P						-	-					?	?	?	?
ERLANG		F		-	-								?	?	?	?	?
FORTH		(P)		-									?	?	?	?	?
HASKELL		F	-	-										?	?	?	?
ICON		P		-										?	?	?	?
JAVA		P												?	?	?
JAVASCRIPT		P							-	-				?	?	?	?
LISP		P/F							-					?	?	?	?
LUA		P							-	-				?	?	?	?
MERCURY		L/F						-	-					?	?	?	?
OCAML		F												?	?	?	?
PASCAL		P		-		-			-				?	?	?	?
PERL		P												?	?	?	?
PHP		P													-	-	-
PIKE		P													-	-	-
PYTHON		P							-					-	-
REXX		P	-					-	-				-	-
RUBY		P						-	-					-
SCHEME		P/F						-					?	?	?
SML		F	-	-		-		-					?	?	?	?
TCL		P												?	?	?	?
VBSCRIPT		P			-								-	-	-	-	-

AWK

Execution
Awka is a compiled version of AWK (AWK-to-C translator)

PERL

PYTHON