CM20253: Comparative Programming Languages

Unit Catalogue

Some links

• Programming Languages Influence Network
• Relative popularity of various languages in the real world
• C is more subtle than you think. Try this Quiz about integers in C
• Undefined Behaviour in 2017 Reflecting on the state of C/C++ with a list of about 200 places in C/C++ where behaviour is undefined
• Functional Programming on Wikipedia
• List of functional languages
• Functional Programming For The Rest of Us from a Java perspective
• Mostly adequate guide to FP (in javascript)
• History of Lisp by John McCarthy
• History of Lisp by Herbert Stoyan
• The Evolution of Lisp by Steele and Gabriel
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs full text
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Video Lectures by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman
• Hyperpolyglot comparison of Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure and Emacs Lisp
• Haddocks' Eyes, with some explanation
• The Funarg problem
• Technical Issues of Separation in Function Cells and Value Cells Lisp-1 vs Lisp-2
• Boehm garbage collector for C and C++. This contains several links to GC literature
• Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms
• Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust GC latency
• Glasgow Haskell Compiler; ghc and ghci interactive r-e-p loop
• Wikibook on Haskell
• Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
• Scala an OO functional language that uses the Java virtual machine
• Curry-Howard Isomorphism
• Erlang Practical functional
• Rust A post-C language
• Go A post-C language
• Swift A post-C language
• Lua Scripting, procedural, functional, bytecode
• OCaml Functional (and imperative and OO)
• C Right-Left Rule for deciphering C declarations
• The C Object System: Using C as a High-Level Object-Oriented Language
• Compiler error messages from the Apple MPW C compiler
• Ten Things I Hate About Object-Oriented Programming
• C++ as a Multiparadigm Language including reflections on why OO is not a panacea
• Go and Rust - objects without class
• Composition over inheritance
• Entity-Component-Systems
• Resource Acquisition Is Initialization (RAII)
• A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
• Banks will stick with COBOL because Java has performance issues
• Facebook's New Spam-Killer Hints at the Future of Coding using Haskell
• Rosetta Code solutions to tasks in many languages
• Use after free and dangling pointers
• The worst mistake of computer science about how NULL is a big problem
• Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake
• The Semipredicate Problem how to deal with errors
• Wikipedia list of programming languages
• Advice on avoiding basic errors in C C++ Java
• Comparing implementations of a network driver in C, Rust, Go, C#, Java, OCaml, Haskell, Swift, Javascript, and Python
• Object-Oriented Programming - The Trillion Dollar Disaster Why it's time to move on from OOP

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