Wikipedia: Programming language/Talk

A great webpage is [Zirings Dictionary on Programming languages]

These are the language links currently listed in programming language. They need to be refactored and regularized. In particular, those language names that are ambiguous should all either be "Lang programming language" or "Lang language". Somebody pick one and make them all consistent, please.

In the list below, I expected that one, sometines two, links in each line, one language per line, to work. The list should always show the current status of these links.

Personally, I think that "lang programming language" is more precise but "lang language" is just barely good enough. The only entries that presently use "lang language" are C (fixed now) and Ruby, so I am going to do what I can to make them work right and also what I can to make all the ambiguous ones work right with "lang programming language".

Ada -- [Ada language]? -- Ada programming language
Algol -- [Algol language]? -- Algol programming language
APL -- [APL language]? -- APL programming language
awk -- [awk language]? -- awk programming language

BASIC -- [BASIC language]? -- BASIC programming language
Altair BASIC, True BASIC, Visual Basic
BCPL -- [BCPL language]? -- BCPL programming language
BeFunge? -- [BeFunge language]? -- [BeFunge programming language]?
BLISS? -- [BLISS language]? -- [BLISS programming language]?
Blue -- [Blue language]? -- [Blue programming language]?
Brainfuck? -- [Brainfuck language]? -- Brainfuck programming language

C(letter) -- C language -- C programming language
C++
C#
COBOL -- [COBOL language]? -- COBOL programming language
CORAL66

Delphi -- [Delphi language]? -- Delphi programming language
Dylan -- [Dylan language]? -- Dylan programming language

Erlang -- [Erlang language]? -- Erlang programming language
Euphoria -- [Euphoria language]? -- Euphoria programming language

Forth -- [Forth language]? -- Forth programming language
FORTRAN

Godiva? -- [Godiva language]? -- Godiva programming language

Haskell -- [Haskell language]? -- Haskell programming language

Icon -- [Icon language]? -- Icon programming language
InterCal -- [InterCal language]? -- [InterCal programming language]?

Java -- [Java language]? -- Java programming language
JavaScript -- [JavaScript language]? -- [JavaScript programming language]?

LISP -- [LISP language]? -- LISP programming language
Lua -- [Lua language]? -- [Lua programming language]?

m4
Miranda -- [Miranda language]? -- [Miranda programming language]?
ML -- [ML language]? -- ML programming language
Modula? -- [Modula language]? -- [Modula programming language]?
MOO? -- [MOO language]? -- MOO programming language
MUMPS -- [MUMPS language]? -- MUMPS programming language

Nial -- [Nial language]? -- Nial programming language

Oberon -- [Oberon language]? -- Oberon programming language

Pascal -- [Pascal language]? -- Pascal programming language
Perl -- [Perl language]? -- Perl programming language
PHP -- [PHP language]? -- PHP programming language
PL/I
POPLOG? -- [POPLOG language]? -- [POPLOG programming language]?
PostScript -- [PostScript language]? -- PostScript programming language
Prolog -- [Prolog language]? -- Prolog programming language
Python -- [Python language]? -- Python programming language

QuakeC -- [QuakeC language]? -- [QuakeC programming language]?

REBOL? -- [REBOL language]? -- REBOL programming language
REXX -- [REXX language]? -- REXX programming language
RPG -- [RPG language]? -- [RPG programming language]?
Ruby(gemstone) -- Ruby language -- Ruby programming language

Scheme -- [Scheme language]? -- Scheme programming language
sed -- [sed language]? -- sed programming language
Simula? -- [Simula language]? -- [Simula programming language]?
Smalltalk -- [Smalltalk language]? -- Smalltalk programming language
SNOBOL -- [SNOBOL language]? -- [SNOBOL programming language]?
SPITBOL? -- [SPITBOL language]? -- [SPITBOL programming language]?
SQL -- [SQL language]? -- SQL programming language

Tcl -- [Tcl language]? -- [Tcl programming language]?
teco -- [teco language]? -- [teco programming language]?
tpu? -- [tpu language]? -- [tpu programming language]?
Turing? -- [Turing language]? -- Turing programming language

Unicon -- [Unicon language]? -- [Unicon programming language]?
UnLamda? -- [UnLamda language]? -- [UnLamda programming language]?

VarAq? -- [VarAq language]? -- [VarAq programming language]?
VBScript? -- [VBScript language]? -- VBScript programming language

-- Buzco

Is it PL/1 or PL/I (ie: is it a one or an eye)

Digging around on IBM suggests that it is PL/I pronounced Pee Ell One (roman numeral for one). That is consistent with my [Dragon Book]? which uses PL/I except in one place where it uses PL/1 but I think that might be a typo. It is called "PL/I" by the ANSI standard: ANSI X3.74-1987 (R1998) Title: Information Systems - Programming Language - PL/I General-Purpose Subset

(on Fortran:) The reason there is a redirect is because both spellings are used and we want obvious linking to work. The pages Fortran and FORTRAN should probably be swapped round, but it doesn't matter much.

--drj

--- This article seems to be written largely from the point of view of a programmer in mainstream languages. For example, interactive use is attributed to interpreters, without considering that eg. many Smalltalk and Lisp systems have native compilers that are used interactively. Sorry for not bothering to work this rant into a considered and balanced edit of the article.

-- han