- Ada
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- Fortress
- Today (2007-01-16) I discovered Fortress. Happy, because it's a language with units, unicode operators, design by contract, and more (I still have to read the pdf), sad because of identical reason...
- Assembler
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- C
- C doesn't do anything for you, unless you ask for it. This is both C's
main weakness and main strength. C also never tries to be forbid a programmer
to do something; it might nag a bit, but in the end it will comply.
A programmer is the boss
No unexpected resource usage
- Perl
- Strings, regular expressions, and hashes make any text processing much
easier. "There is more than one way to do it", is a gift most of the times
and a crime in some cases. The lack of function prototyping and the fact that
everything is a scalar can be a major stumbling block.
Strings are first class objects/vars
Index with non-integers
- PL/I
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- Python
- Documentation in source code
Immutibility support
- Ruby
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