:-)
Every serious student of computing should be familiar with a range of different languages (for example, I used a mixture of C, C++, Delphi, JavaScript and Perl to create this CD). This collection includes compilers and other resources for a wide variety of programming languages, including conventional procedural languages, object-oriented languages, functional languages, logic programming languages, scripting languages, and some just plain weird languages. You can choose which are which!
For a light-hearted comparison of a range of languages, I've also included a widely-circulated collection of "shooting yourself in the foot" jokes about different languages...
| Ada 95 | APL / J | Assemblers | C |
| C++ | Eiffel | Forth | Fortran |
| Haskell | Icon | Java / JavaScript | Lisp |
| ML | Modula-2 | Oberon | Objective-C |
| Pascal / Delphi | Perl | Prolog | Python |
| Smalltalk | Snobol4 | Tcl/Tk | Visual Basic |
|
| A selection of software libraries. Don't reinvent the wheel, use these! |
|
| Lots of source code
examples which will show you how the black magic is really
done :-)
|
|
| Text editors to help develop your source code |
|
| Other development tools: debuggers, source code control, graphical development environments and more |
|
| Programming documentation on a range of topics, both general and PC-specific |
| An Index to Object-Oriented Information Sources |
|
| The OO SoapBox |
|
| The Programming Languages section of the WWW Virtual Library at Imperial College |
|
| The Computer Languages List at NCSA |
|
| The PHOAKS computer languages index |
|
| The Teaching About Programming Languages Project |
|
| A guide to selecting a programming language |
|
| The Programmer's Oasis |
|
| The Cetus Object-Orientation list |
|
| Yahoo's Programming Languages links |
|
| The newsgroup comp.object discusses object-oriented programming in general |
|
| The newsgroup comp.functional discusses functional programming in general |