Wikipedia:WikiProject Programming languages

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This WikiProject aims primarily to organize articles about programming languages. See List of programming languages, for a list of these articles. Work is going on at Categorical list of programming languages.

The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Computing. There is one descendant, WikiProject C++.

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[edit] Participants

[edit] Style guide

An article describing a programming language should generally include at least

  1. Fill in Template:Infobox programming language
  2. A brief outline of the history of the language
  3. An overview of the language features
    • Programming paradigm(s) that the language supports, and how well it supports them
    • Style of type-checking, support for design by contract or other specification techniques
    • Memory management style
  4. A basic introduction to the language syntax (including some code samples)
  5. An overview of the formal semantics of the language (if one exists)
  6. A list of available implementations and supported platforms

The following langauges have achieved Good Article status, and would thus make good models:

[edit] Hierarchy definition

  • Imperative
    • Object Oriented
      • Aspect Oriented
  • Functional
  • Logic
  • Stack Based / Concatenative

There is some discussion of categorization schemes at Template talk:Major programming languages/Archive2.

[edit] Resources