Question:
What programming languages are used for what purpose??
The_One
2008-02-05 04:21:41 UTC
C, C#, C++, Pascal, ColdFusion, and many more...

can anyone tell me the names of programming language and their function,,,,and a few brief info on which is better to learn...

Thanks gys
Five answers:
tadds
2008-02-05 04:38:14 UTC
Start here. It is intended to provide very high-level information about the respective languages to anyone who is trying to decide which language(s) to learn or to use for a particular project. You can find a similar comparisons from Google.



http://www.jvoegele.com/software/langcomp.html
anonymous
2008-02-05 04:40:39 UTC
Assembly code is the most efficient for maximizing the use of processor speed, since it's essentially code written at the machine's operating system level, with operations on specific bytes and bits of core memory. The Assembly programmer must be extremely knowledgeable about the technonology of the machine and its operating system.



C and C++ offer a step above that, and are used when maximizing the use of processor speed is critical but there's a desire to add some readability to the code. The language is just a few steps above Assembly, though. The programmer still needs to be intimate with machine memory concepts and architecture, and the coding tends to be overly complex for even the simplest operations.



Pascal was an attempt to make the language a little easier to work with, adding some "English language" commands to it. It's a good middle ground, but really it's time has come and gone. It's not really that popular any more.



Basic was the ultimate easy-to-use and understand programming language, very easy to program with and read. Each command was interpreted behind the scenes, essentially translated to C and Assembly code to actually do the work. But that interpretation took a little time (microseconds really, but in some applications like games, microseconds are like minutes).



Visual Basic took Basic to the Windows platform, providing object oriented programming and forms.



For web applications, HTML is the standard, and ASP is a Visual Basic -like language to create dynamic HTML before it got posted to web pages.



The early versions of ASP were complicated and difficult to use in practice, offering a great opportunity for ColdFusion to get it right. ColdFusion became the better version of ASP, but by the second version of ASP, Microsoft pretty much caught up.



C# and Java are C-like versions of dynamic web programming (mostly because C and Visual Basic programmers evolved to despise each other, and C programmers they didn't want to have to program on the web in anything that was as easy to use as Cold Fusion or ASP).



.NET became Microsoft's ultimate solution to combine all of the languages into one, but essentially it turned VB.NET into a C-like language, infuriating a lot of VB programmers (who still use VB6). .NET is extremely convoluted, highly object oriented, but very flexible in what it can do. It adds a lot of layers of security as well, which can often get in the way to perform even simple tasks.



If you want to join the game programming crowd and have snob appeal, learn C++, C#, and Java.



If you want to get a good job as a business programmer, .NET is the way to go.
Gaurab Chatterjeee
2008-02-05 04:40:08 UTC
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one by one

1 .c --- sequential execution of programs . so yo can develop very low memory console applications.

2. C++ object oriented programming language .Used to develop application better than C.

3. Pascal:-Blaise Pascal (pronounced [blɛːz paskal]), (June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators, the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defense of the scientific method.



Pascal was a mathematician of the first order. He helped create two major new areas of research. He wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of sixteen, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science.



Following a mystical experience in late 1654, he abandoned his scientific work and devoted himself to philosophy and theology. His two most famous works date from this period: the Lettres provinciales and the Pensées. Pascal suffered from ill health throughout his life and died two months after his 39th birthday.

for more follow the link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal



4.cold fusion

ColdFusion is an application server and software development framework used for the development of computer software in general, and dynamic web sites in particular. In this regard, ColdFusion is a similar product to Microsoft ASP.NET, JavaServer Pages or PHP.

for more

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColdFusion
anonymous
2016-10-03 09:08:14 UTC
maximum. i do no longer know any programmer of any seniority who does not paintings in 2 or 3 languages. because of the fact of my age, Fortran is difficulty-unfastened between my friends. because of the fact i'm a Linux consumer who is going to that variety of experience, Python is likewise difficulty-unfastened -- i will yet shouldn't and could no longer call some companies who say you may code in any language you desire as long because it is Python. C++ is a default. it is so smart for engines -- pastime engines browser engines. maximum companies use various of proprietary scripting language. some are problematic, some so straight forward a non-programmer could desire to no longer comprehend that they are programming languages. As individual languages none of them is important of path, yet there are maximum of of them that they take an significant adequate chew of the paintings available to point them as a team. I won't even go into Java -- i've got been advised on the grounds that Oracle sued Google over their use of Java in Android that particular companies are basically hiring Java programmers for upkeep paintings. I in no way concept those have been all of them, yet i assumed the industry could decrease better than it has -- because of the fact an undesirable lot of companies desire an undesirable lot of upkeep paintings. Even a pair of my aspects -- who're people doing the hiring -- are shocked by applying how plenty they have invested in it.
?
2008-02-05 04:38:05 UTC
Would take an electronic computer course to explain that.

First there was ,,uhmm,,

Fortran,,

http://www.levenez.com/lang/history.html

http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~leavens/ComS541Fall97/hw-pages/history/

Then a few others,,then Basic

Then a few more then C

and so on,,,

This one has most all listed,,

http://www.levenez.com/lang/

Then there is:

http://people.ku.edu/~nkinners/LangList/Extras/langlist.htm

That one says there are 2500 languages,,,whew!

http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/language/language.htm

Game On!


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