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[katking]

Hi,

I'm doing a linguistic analysis of programming languages, and I would like to collect examples in 4 - 5 languages to analyse using a linguistics framework called Functional Grammar (suggestions for the languages have been Perl, Java, C+, php), for each of which I would only be analysing perhaps the equivalent of a few A4 pages of printed code (formatting intact).

My question is, in order to keep my results reliable, I would like to be analysing code which would execute either the same or a similar function/program across all 4/5 languages. Not being familiar with programming languages myself I'm not aware of what common things they can do. It could be a very basic thing - is there something you get taught to do in all languages when you first start to learn them?

I would be very grateful for any recommendations, and happy to answer questions if I haven't been clear enough - essentially I want to look at how several different programming languages would do the same thing. It would be helpful if the code was accessible/downloadable.

Many thanks for any advice :)

[Alexander]

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[katking]

Wow, that is certainly a step in the right direction, thank you! That is exactly the kind of thing I am looking for -
only problem is the text is generally too short! I guess I need a more complex function?
Are there any similar websites where people have tried to address the same problem or issue
using different languages?

Cheers :)

Edited by katking, 11 September 2010 - 05:39 AM.

[Momerath]

Rosetta Code

[katking]

Oh, that's amazing, thanks! I see that I may have to do multiple comparisons, because again some of them are quite short... It seems the volume of text I was thinking of is more akin to a whole program or website isn't it!

Thanks for that link, that looks massively helpful :)

[paddy3118]

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