From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2002-01-21T22:53:40+09:00
Subject: Re: I need your experience - classification and comparison of languages


On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Yvan Radenac wrote:

> I think that there's no universal language, so it's not to compare, in
> a global way, each language. The goal is to create some tables to find
> the best choice for a kind of software development.

In such a case, explanations are better than any kind of ratings. The
boxes will be too small to be written into.

> Paradigms: imperative, logic-based, functionnal, object-oriented, ...

object-oriented is not a paradigm; it's a cross-cut idea that can apply to
many paradigms (though in very different ways). usually it extends the
imperative paradigm.

but add "dataflow" to the list of paradigms.

> Abstraction level: low-level (assemblers), high-level (a majority of
> languages), very high level (Prolog)

In some cases, very-high-level capacities are added on top of a more
general-purpose language (and those capacities may deal with the ideas of
other "paradigms"). you have to watch for what add-ons you can get for the
language: and there are often many.

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