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This ability to mix languages offers great promise for the future of programming languages, as the practical advance of new language designs will no longer be hindered by the library issue ...

What if programming did not mean having to learn a language someone else devised and then wrestling with the limitations of that language, its compilers, and computers to implement your task? What if it meant, in a sense, the opposite? You could write your program in whatever way was most expressive for you, without regard for language rules imposed by someone else. Then it would be somebody else's job to define the programming language that would make sense of what you wrote, write the compilers to digest the program, and build the computers that would efficiently run the task you specified.

Compiles PHP to MSIL and now supports using .Net objects from PHP

C Sharp or C# is one of the widely used object oriented programming languages in the world. The C# Development platform was introduced by Microsoft within its .Net Initiative. This language, later, was approved as a standard by ECMA and ISO. It is one of the well-known programming languages designed for the Common Language Infrastructure.

"American Sign Language (ASL) is an application for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad which is a fun way to learn, understand and practice American Sign Language. The application has been designed for the people of all age group who want to understand the ASL when they are on the move. This provides a healthy activity to keep in touch with the language signs and constant practice with the help of this app makes it even better."

The Silverlight Dynamic Languages SDK enables developers to use dynamic languages running on the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) to build Silverlight applications.

The Archive of Interesting Code is an (ambitious) effort on my part to research, intuit, and code up every interesting algorithm and data structure ever invented. In doing so, I hope both to learn the mathematical techniques that power these technologies and to improve my skills as a programmer. The examples on this site are in a variety of languages. I generally prefer to use C++ for algorithms, since the STL provides a great framework for expressing algorithms that work on a variety of data types. I code up most data structures in Java, both because the Collections framework allows them to be integrated in seamlessly with other applications and because automatic garbage collection simplifies some of the resource management. Every now and then I'll find an algorithm or data structure that is best represented in a different language like Haskell, in which case I'll forgo my usual language conventions.

The XmlLite library allows developers to build high-performance XML-based applications that provide a high degree of interoperability with other applications that adhere to the XML 1.0 standard. XmlLite works with any Windows language that can use dynamic link libraries (DLLs), but Microsoft recommends C++. XmlLite comes with all necessary support files for use with C++, but if you want to use it with other languages, some additional work may be required.

M seems to be like LINQ for data structure generation: a simple template language with assemblers for different back-end technologies.

The Microsoft code name "M" language is a declarative language for working with data and building domain models. "M" lets users write down how they want to structure and query their data using a textual syntax that is convenient to both author and reader.

A .NET language for safe, scalable and productive parallel programming through isolation, actors and message-passing ...

This is a short tutorial approach to an old but little-noticed saw.

The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, Wikipedia and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written. The index can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date or to make a strategic decision about what programming language should be adopted when starting to build a new software system.

ActiveState Code is a site for learning from and sharing code recipes - with a focus on dynamic languages and languages used for web development. The recipes you'll find here highlight programming best practices and can be used directly in day-to-day tasks, as a source of ideas, or as a way to learn more about languages or libraries. We invite you to contribute code, comments, and ratings for recipes. The recipes are freely available for review and use.

Did you know that Hungarian is the most difficult language in Europe?

The Yahoo! Query Language is an expressive SQL-like language that lets you query, filter, and join data across Web services. With YQL, apps run faster with fewer lines of code and a smaller network footprint.

The idea of doing a research to find the most popular programming language, came to me a month ago when i was surfing the TIOBE site. This is a research i did

Ah source control, if there's a more essential tool which indiscriminately spans programming languages without favour, I'm yet to see it. It's an essential component of how so many of us work; the lifeblood of many development teams, if you like. So why do we often get it so wrong? Why are some of the really core, fundamentals of version control systems often so poorly understood? I boil it down to 10 practices - or "commandments" if you like - which often break down or are not properly understand to begin with. These are all relevant to version control products of all types and programming languages of all flavours. I'll pick some examples from Subversion and .NET but they're broadly applicable to other technologies.

Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing. It supports distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library. It uses an LLVM-based JIT compiler to achieve near C performance that far outstrips Python/Matlab/R ...

Side-by-side comparisons of programming language features