Links about Programming Languages and Similar Topics

Programming Languages

- Perl (appeared in 1987)

• Natural Language Principles in Perl
• Search.CPAN.org
• Perl.com
• CPAN script repository
• Perl Tutorials
• PerlGuts Illustrated by Gisle Aas

- C (appeared in 1972)

• ISO C Standard 2011 (C11) - (local copy)
• ISO/IEC C - Approved Standards
• ISO/ANSI C Standard Draft 1998
• ISO/ANSI C Standard Reference and other links
• The Ten Commandments for C Programmers - by Henry Spencer
• C regexp package by Henry Spencer (local copy)

- PHP (appeared in 1995)

• Programming Language PHP
• PHP Manual
• Basic Syntax (chapter)
• A PHP Tutorial
• PHP Cheat Sheet by Nick Schaferhoff

- Java (appeared in 1995)

• Java 2 SDK Documentation
• Java Tutorials
• Java Tutorial by Vlado Keselj, 1998

- Python (appeared in 1990)

• Python Programming Language Web Site
  

- Scheme (appeared in 1975)

• Scheme site
• Scheme report
• Appendix B of FSSPL

- Emacs Lisp (Elisp) (appeared in 1985)

• An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp

- JavaScript (appeared in 1995)

• JavaScript in small bites by Matt Might - a nice JavaScript tutorial
• JavaScript Kit - a JavaScript site, useful references
• Javascript basic tutorial - short JavaScript tutorial
• JavaScript Lecture Notes - quite detailed lecture notes from Ryerson University
• Web Programming University of Washington - HTML, JavaScript, PHP and SQL basics

- C++ (appeared in 1985)

• ISO/ANSI Standard for C++, 1996 (local copy)
• Standard Template Library Programmer's Guide (local copy)
• cplusplus.com: reference, tutorials, etc. about C++
• C++ Tutorial by Peter Buhr, 2001
• C++ Tutorial by Peter Buhr, 2001 (local copy)
• STL Source Code examples, Addison Wesley

- COBOL (appeared in 1959)

• COBOL Resources

- Pascal (appeared in 1970)

• Pascal ISO 10206 Reference (local copy)
  
• Pascal ISO 10206 Reference

- Fortran (appeared in 1957)
- Lisp (appeared in 1958)
- ALGOL 58 (appeared in 1958)
- ALGOL 60 (appeared in 1960)
- PL/I (appeared in 1964)
- ALGOL 68 (appeared in 1968)
- Haskell

• Haskell home page

- Io

• Io - a small programming language

- ML

• Information about Standard ML
• Standard ML of New Jersey

- Objective-C (appeared in 1984)

• Introduction to the Objective-C Programming Langauge - at the Apple site
• Objective-C Development: Get Started Building Mac and iOS Apps - blog with some interesting links and references

- Occam

• Occam Language at WoTUG

- Prolog

• SWI Prolog - Open-source Prolog for various platforms
• Logic programming page (sbu.ac.uk)
• tuProlog - Java implementation of a "light-weight Prolog engine"

- Ruby

• Ruby site, Quote: "Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming."

- Smalltalk

• Squeak - an open source Smalltalk implementation

- Visual Basic

• Visual Basic

Other Formal Languages

- HTML

• HTML Code Tutorial by Idocs Inc.

- SQL

• MySQL Tutorial
• SQLite - SQLite is a small C library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine

- XML

• XML Basics

General Links

- TIOBE Index for Language Popularity

Courses about Principles of Programming Languages

- CSCI 3136 at Dalhousie University: Vlado Keselj's page, Evangelos Milios's page
- University of Waterloo: CS 442/642, CS 442 course description
- University of Toronto: CSC 324, CSC 326
- CS 242 at Stanford University
- CS 152 at Harvard University
- COMP-302 at the McGill University

Reading

- J. McCarthy, Recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine, Comm. ACM 3, 4 (1960) 184-195. (The original paper on Lisp.) (Cached)
- Coroutines in C by Simon Tatham; (Cached)

Preprocessing and Text-Embedded Programming (PTEP)

- Preprocessing and Text-Embedded Programming (PTEP) blog by Vlado Keselj
- Starfish system

• Starfish - by Vlado Keselj
• Starfish on CPAN