Category talk:Programming languages/Archive 1

I think here should also the languages Pure Data (PD) and Max/MSP be listed. http://puredata.info/about/ http://www.cycling74.com/products/maxmsp.html
 * They are now included. See Category:Domain-specific programming languages &mdash;danakil

languages generally rather than specific language
I don't see a good category for articles that are about programming languages generally rather than about a specific programming language. It looked like all the articles in this cat and in its subcats are about specific languages. Two articles I was facing this with were Ousterhout's dichotomy and System programming language, which ended up in cat:computer language, which isn't quite right since they are about programming languages (and not, say, markup languages). The question is about the subject of programming languages, not programming per se, so the Programming category isn't quite the right thing.

A similar situation was happening over in Category:Operating systems, with a mix of articles about specific OSs and about OS concepts. That was solved by adding a Category:Operating system technology for the non-particular articles. -R. S. Shaw 22:56, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Indus / Language for Distributed and Concurrent programming
We have implemented a new object oriented programming language called Indus. Indus introduces new language artefacts like agents, components, coordination, composition, etc and enables programmers to write applications that are inherently distributed in nature - so, things like lifecycle mgmt, service discovery, run time connections, message routing, transaction mgmt and policies are all a part of the language itself. Indus reduces time and effort reqd to write distributed and concurrent applications. The Indus language compiler also emits java/bytecode, C and Small C code, so applications in Indus will be able to run seamlessly across a variety of hardware platforms. So, why not list it too ? The Indus developer site is http://developer.aumeganetworks.com - the Indus libraries and VM is also going open source, so come and contribute to Indus.


 * Why not list it? Mostly because it was just made - by you. You put it into Template:Major programming languages, too, and that was even more inappropriate, seeing as it has no demonstrated users. GreenReaper 11:12, 29 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Which list should new programming languages go to ?


 * Well, my personal feeling is that if they've not actually been used, it's debatable whether or not they should be here at all. However, you've stated that it is aimed at a particular segment of the programming community - distributed and concurrent applications - so perhaps it should be in Category:Concurrent programming languages. GreenReaper 22:38, 29 July 2005 (UTC)


 * I've added it there, for now. GreenReaper 22:44, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia Integration
Bookmarking for Integration Project: there's a lot to be learned from here. Cwolfsheep 01:01, 8 July 2006 (UTC)