tocariimaa
4b17ce4782
Probably I will never have a VPS so this wiki will live in a git
repository only. To make the article urls work properly so the
wiki can be browsed, I removed the leading `/`.
For the record, this is what I used (sed could have done the job too):
```
find articles -type f -name '*.md' -exec \
perl -pi -e 's/\[([^]]+)\]\(\/([a-zA-Z0-9\/_.-]+)\)/\[\1\]\(\2\)/g' {} \;
````
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# Programming language
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A programming language is a computer language in which programs can be written, they can either be compiled into native machine code or interpreted.
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Different programming languages offers distinct amount of abstraction over the machine (low-level and high-level),
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being the so called "scripting languages" the ones with the higher level of abstraction, for example.
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In some ways, assembly can be considered a (low-level) programming language, since it abstracts the numerical opcodes of the machine with mnemonics
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(such as `mov`, `call`, `mul`, etc.) and most offer macro capabilities.
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## List of acceptable and non-acceptable (harmful) languages
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- Assembly: yes, but non portable.
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- [C](articles/c.html): yes, the first and natural choice for writing programs. The Unix language.
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- [Lua](articles/lua.html): yes, good for embedding and quick scripts.
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- [Lisp](articles/lisp.html): yes, flexible and relatively fast, prefer Scheme over the more bloated Common Lisp (still better than C++ however).
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- Forth: yes, niche, but it is a nice exercise on minimalism.
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- Pascal (no OOP): yes, old school and quite verbose, but small and fast compared to, say C++ or Rust; comparable to C in terms
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of features.
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- (POSIX) [Shell Script](articles/shell_script.html): yes, has its quirks.
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- Perl: acceptable, could be used as a replacement for more complex shell scripts, since it is commonly installed in most
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modern unixes.
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- Go: acceptable but beware of the big executable sizes.
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- PHP (no OOP): acceptable, if you need interactive web pages but stay away from [frameworks](articles/frameworks.html).
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- Python: Slow and bloated, avoid
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- C++: No.
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- JavaScript: No.
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- Rust: NO
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