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Intended to be a safe dialect of the C language. It is designed to avoid buffer overflows and other vulnerabilities that are endemic in C programs, without losing the power and convenience of C as a tool for system programming. C#: 2000 Anders Hejlsberg: Developed by Microsoft in the early 2000s as a modern, object-oriented language for the ...
Turing is designed to have a very lightweight, readable, intuitive syntax. Here is the entire "Hello, World!" program in Turing with syntax highlighting: put "Hello World!" Turing avoids semicolons and braces, using explicit end markers for most language constructs instead, and allows declarations anywhere.
The Computer Language Benchmarks Game site warns against over-generalizing from benchmark data, but contains a large number of micro-benchmarks of reader-contributed code snippets, with an interface that generates various charts and tables comparing specific programming languages and types of tests.
In fixed format code, line indentation is significant. Columns 1–6 and columns from 73 onwards are ignored. If a * or / is in column 7, then that line is a comment. Until COBOL 2002, if a D or d was in column 7, it would define a "debugging line" which would be ignored unless the compiler was instructed to compile it. Cobra
Accidental complexity relates to problems that engineers create and can fix. For example, modern programming languages have abstracted away the details of writing and optimizing assembly language source code and eliminated the delays caused by batch processing, though other sources of accidental complexity remain. Essential complexity is caused ...
A single program deck, with individual subroutines marked. The markings show the effects of editing, as cards are replaced or reordered. Many early programming languages, including FORTRAN, COBOL and the various IBM assembler languages, used only the first 72 columns of a card – a tradition that traces back to the IBM 711 card reader used on the IBM 704/709/7090/7094 series (especially the ...
The set of all context-free languages is identical to the set of languages accepted by pushdown automata, which makes these languages amenable to parsing.Further, for a given CFG, there is a direct way to produce a pushdown automaton for the grammar (and thereby the corresponding language), though going the other way (producing a grammar given an automaton) is not as direct.
The generic form of the generated source code is described in the template definition, and when the template is instantiated, the generic form in the template is used to generate a specific set of source code. Template metaprogramming is Turing-complete, meaning that any computation expressible by a computer program can be computed, in some ...