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A list of computer languages with release year and category

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Re: A list of computer languages with release year and category

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Anyone willing to work on Abacus please send me a papyrus. :D https://codelani.com/languages/abacus-machine.html

Amazingly, it's still in the top half of programming languages! Which just goes to show how meaningless top N% is when you have a list of so many languages.

Re: A list of computer languages with release year and category

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Some of these have confusing type fields. Like asterius-compiler which is a "compiler", but apparently not a programming language? It seems pretty loose at what constitutes a "computer language", with numeralSystems, cloud, non-programmable text editors, and mathematical notation among other strange entries.

It feels like there needs to be some kind of cutoff on what we're calling a language here. Maybe if it is Turing Complete? I mean JPEG might be considered a language in some ways, in that it encodes data and the computer has to parse it, but I wouldn't normally classify it as a language.

Re: A list of computer languages with release year and category

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Looks like it uses github stars for that.

That would exclude many users for languages that are in legacy systems, which are rarely tracked in github.

It could be alright for a rough/relative estimate...

Re: A list of computer languages with release year and category

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Interesting idea but as others have already pointed out, it has a lot more than just programming languages in it. I understand that the description explicitly points it out but advertising it as a list of "computer languages"/"programming languages" is just plain wrong and misleading.

Re: A list of computer languages with release year and category

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Or jobs?

I don't know, but looking at ADA, 20 jobs seems very low. I was under the impression that ADA is still a required language for a lot of military hardware. My guess would be that he's scraping jobs sites for listings numbers, and I suspect something like ADA development is using different channels to find devs.

Prolog has 402 claimed jobs: https://codelani.com/languages/prolog.html but looking at any Prolog implementation lists 0. I cannot imagine that there are this many (available?) Prolog jobs in the world, nor that no advertised job would specify the implementation the company uses. I think the numbers are generated using some sort of garbage in, garbage out system.

Re: A list of computer languages with release year and category

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> Steel Bank Common Lisp, aka Steel Bank Common Lisp, is a historical programming language

I'd call it a compiler, not a language, and I've never heard it called "historical". What makes a language "historical"?

> ABCL%2Fc%2B is a historical programming language created in 1988.

Got some escaping issues here.

> Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, aka Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, is an actively used programming language created in 1964. BASIC (an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use.

Lots of redundancy redundancy here, redundantly.

> #include

I'm having a little trouble finding what this is, but it's not part of (modern) Objective-C, and this hello-world doesn't compile with Clang. It seems to be a class library that shipped with one (non-NeXT/Apple) Objective-C compiler. I don't think I've ever seen the do:{:each |...} syntax in Objective-C, either.

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