Re: Application of Various Programming Languages?

have not found information regarding which kind of problems each
language is designed to address.
.. . . .
is each language optimized for certain applications?

This is an important question that is not well understood. Languages
are not realy one size fits all problems. It is even more complicated
because there is a huge overlap between languages. Many applications
can be implimented on many languages.

Google for "language shootout".
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=language+shootout&meta=
The language shootout benchmarks is an attempt to show the
relative implimentation effectiveness for a standard set of problems
on as many languages as possible.

In general there are implimentation languages where the focus is on the
method used to impliment an application. For example C and C++

There are application specific languages where the language is structured
to easily describe the problem in the vocabulary of the application.
Prolog, and ST to name two

Some languages that treat data and functions as similar objects are
referred to as functional languages. These include LISP, MP Scheme
and trac

Regards,


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"W. D. Allen" wrote:

As a neophyte I have become aware of a large variety of programming
languages, Ada, C++, VisualBasic, Python, Ruby, etc., but have not find
information regarding which kind of problems each language is designed
to address. For example, I assume Ruby is a web design language, but is
each language optimized for certain applications? If so, is there a web
site where I can get answers to my question?

Many thanks,

W. D. Allen
ballensr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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