programming languages

Damn Small Linux can be an ideal platform for supporting a wide range of programming languages. You can even program directly from the command line via a programming shell such as Bash.

Major programming languages used in this environment include C, C++, and Java.

While LSB generally has focused on C and C++, in fact it bears on several other programming languages. LSB helps with the gap between, "It works (at least on my personal desktop)!" and, "Here's a well-behaved product ready for delivery to customers." That gap is greater than many junior programmers realize...

This is a purely technical blog concerning topics such as Python, Linux, FreeBSD, open source software, the Web, and lesser-known programming languages.

Indigo Jo Blogs: "Eric Raymond, author of the [Computer] Jargon File, The Cathedral and The Bazaar and a number of well-used but little-known pieces of software, is working on a book, putatively titled Why C++ Is Not Our Favorite Programming Language.

In his recent announcement, he lays out why he wants to "harpoon the Great White Whale of programming languages""

Computerworld: "Professor Roberto Ierusalimschy offers an in-depth examination of what he believes to be the most successful programming language not born in a developed country."

TechWorld: "Being youthful at the time I figured I could design and implement a language "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike" ABC, improving upon ABC's deficiencies, and solve our support applications problem, so around Christmas 1989, I started hacking.

For various reasons, soon after Python was complete enough to be used, that particular project was no longer as relevant, but Python proved useful to other projects at CWI, and in early 1991 (i.e. a little over a year after I started) we did the first open source release (well before the term open source had even been invented)."

IBM Developerworks: "Maintaining and adding new features to legacy systems developed using C/C++ is a daunting task.

Fortunately, doxygen—a documentation system for the C/C++, Java™, Python, and other programming languages—can help.

Discover the features of doxygen in the context of projects using C/C++ as well as how to document code using doxygen-defined tags."

Computerworld: "Brendan Eich created JavaScript in 1995 with the aim to provide a "glue language" for Web designers and part time programmers.

It has grown to become one of the most widely used languages on the planet."

Mr. Shapiro shows us how to write a program to compute internal rate of return using three programming languages supported by Linux - Perl, C and Java.

Computerworld interviews Stephen C. Johnson, the brains behind YACC Yet Another Compiler Compiler: The compiler was developed some 35 years ago and is still going strong today through various incarnations.