Everything about Comparison of programming languages

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Comparison of programming languagesA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Software EngineeringThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: A comparison of object‐oriented programming in four modern languagesCited 7 times
4. Go sideways: Comparison of multi-paradigm programming languagesA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Ada (programming language)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• A comparison of object‐oriented programming in four modern languages

  Robert Henderson, Benjamin Zorn · 1994 · Software: Practice and Experience · 7 citations

• Extensible Model for Comparison of Expressiveness of Object-Oriented Programming Languages

  Ruslan Batdalov, Oksana Ņikiforova, Adrian Giurca · 2016 · Applied Computer Systems · 4 citations

• Comparison of systematically derived software metrics thresholds for object-oriented programming languages

  Tina Beranic, Marjan Hericko · 2020 · Computer Science and Information Systems · 3 citations

• A conceptual perspective on the comparison of object-oriented programming languages

  Bent Bruun Kristensen, Kasper Østerbye · 1996 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Software EngineeringRoger S. Pressman, Bruce Maxim · 1982
• C How to ProgramPaul J. Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel · 2007
• Bulletin of the United States Army Medical DepartmentUnited States. Army Medical Service. · 1944
• Learning PythonMark Lutz, David Ascher · 1999
• Technical CommunicationJohn M. Lannon · 2000
• Cartesian meditationsEdmund Husserl, Dorion Cairns · 1960
• Eloquent JavascriptMarijn Haverbeke · 2009
• Database system conceptsAbraham Silberschatz · 1997

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

• Comparison of multi-paradigm programming languages Programming languages can be grouped by the number and types of paradigms supported. A concise reference for the programming paradigms listed in this article…
• Ada (programming language) Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, and object-oriented high-level programming language, inspired by Pascal and other languages. It has…
• List of programming languages by type The notable programming languages listed here are grouped by their notable language attribute. As a language can have multiple attributes, the same language…
• Operator overloading In computer programming, operator overloading, sometimes termed operator ad hoc polymorphism, is a specific case of polymorphism, where different operators…
• Generational list of programming languages This is a "genealogy" of programming languages. Languages are categorized under the ancestor language with the strongest influence. Those ancestor languages…
• Modulo In mathematics and computing, modulo is the binary operation of which the value is the remainder or signed remainder of a division of one number by another…
• Comparison of programming languages (basic instructions) This article compares a large number of programming languages by tabulating their data types, their expression, statement, and declaration syntax, and…
• List of programming languages This is an index to notable programming languages, in current or historical use. Dialects of BASIC (which have their own page), esoteric programming languages…