<p>====== Language ======</p>

<p>=====  Introduction  =====</p>

<p>The primary purpose of this wiki is to give immediate help to programmers wanting to know how to perform specific tasks in specific languages.  However, a frequently asked question is:  "Which language should I use?", and many programmers remain largely ignorant of the vast majority of programming languages, so some brief notes are appropriate.</p>

<p>This article will briefly introduce a number of old and new languages, addressing questions such as: 
  * what makes this language unique? 
  * when would it be appropriate to use this language? 
  * what are similar languages?<br />
  * what are current implementations?</p>

<p>Please note that there are many [[Religious|Issues]] involved, and this article should maintain an objective and thoughtful tone, acknowledging that there are different opinions, and that they are all entitled to a rational voice.</p>

<p>=====  Languages  =====</p>

<ul>
<li>C</li>
<li>C++</li>
<li>C# (pronounced "see sharp")</li>
<li>Eiffel</li>
<li>F#</li>
<li>Erlang</li>
<li>Haskel</li>
<li>Lisp</li>
<li>Ruby</li>
<li>Pascal </li>
<li>Prolog</li>
<li>Python</li>
<li>Smalltalk</li>
<li>SQL</li>
<li>Visual Basic</li>
<li>VB.NET</li>
</ul>

<p>=====  See Also  =====
[[Language|Cribsheets]]</p>

<p>[[Frameworks]]</p>

<p>This page contains a list of compilers and interpreters for various languages.</p>

<p>=====  Language: BASIC  =====</p>

<p>[[bwbasic]]
[[freebasic]]
[[glbcc]]
[[hbasic]]
[[kbasic]]
[[scriptbasic]]
[[smallbasic]]
[[wxbasic]]
[[xbasic]]
[[x11basic]]
[[yabasic]]</p>

<p>=====  Language: C  =====
[[http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32/|Lcc-win32]]
  * LCC stands for local C compiler. A compiler system for windows developer by Jacob Navia.
[[http://gcc.gnu.org/|Gnu Compiler Collection]]
  * The Gnu Compiler Collection includes a C compiler called gcc.
  * [[http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/tcc/|Tiny C Compiler]]</p>

<p>=====  Language: C#  =====</p>

<p>=====  Language: C++  =====
[[http://gcc.gnu.org/|Gnu Compiler Collection]]
  * The Gnu Compiler Collection's C++ compiler is called g++.</p>

<p>=====  Language: Java  =====
[[http://java.sun.com/|Sun's Java Compiler]]
  * Sun's Java Compiler is the only compiler authorized by Sun Microsystems.  It is the benchmark against which the others measure themselves.</p>

<p>[[http://gcc.gnu.org/java/|GNU's GCJ Compiler]]
  * GCJ is GNU's Java compiler for the GCC compiler suite.  It's still very early, but it has the benefit of compiling to machine code, not to the Java bytecode.</p>

<p>[[http://jikes.sourceforge.net/|IBM's Jikes Compiler]]
  * IBM's Jikes Compiler is a high quality, extremely fast compiler.  Many developers use it for building their development copies, while using the Sun compiler for releases.</p>

<p>[[http://www.kaffe.org/|Tim Wilkinson's and Jim Pick's Kaffe Compiler]]
  * Kaffe was an early entrance into the scene, and was the first real JIT on the market.  It's primary use nowadays is for embedded systems.</p>

<p>=====  Language: Pascal  =====</p>

<p>====  Free Pascal  ====
[[http://www.freepascal.org/|Free Pascal]]
The language syntax has excellent compatibility with TP 7.0 as well as with most versions of Delphi (classes, rtti, exceptions, ansistrings, widestrings, interfaces). A Mac Pascal compatibility mode is also provided to assist Apple users. Furthermore Free Pascal supports function overloading, operator overloading, global properties and other such features.</p>

<p>=====  Language: Perl  =====
[[http://www.perl.com/download.csp|Perl 5.10 source code]] is distributed in a form of a tar.gz file. There are various binary distributions for almost any system. Most linux distributions comes with perl. A well known distribution for Windows is  Activestate's [[http://www.activestate.com/store/productdetail.aspx?prdGuid=81fbce82-6bd5-49bc-a915-08d58c2648ca|ActivePerl]]</p>

<p>=====  Language: PHP  =====</p>

<p>=====  Language: Python  =====</p>

<p>=====  Language: Ruby  =====</p>