Category:Programming language families

This is an attempt to group/organize programming languages into families/categories.

There is already a lot covered in Wikipedia:

Groups of Languages

• wp:Category:Programming language classification
• wp:Categorical_list_of_programming_languages = wp:List of programming languages by type
• Category:Programming language families - wp:Category:Programming language families

Group by Abstraction-level

• wp:Low-level programming language
• wp:High-level programming language
• wp:Very_high-level programming language

• wp:Compiled language
• wp:Interpreted language - wp:Scripting_language
• wp:Category:Educational programming languages
• wp:Rapid application development
• wp:Domain-specific language
• wp:Esoteric programming language - Category:Esoteric Languages

Group by wp:Programming language generations

• wp:First-generation_programming_language - machine code languages
• wp:Second-generation_programming_language - assembly languages
• wp:Third-generation programming language - "high level" languages
• wp:Fourth-generation programming_language
• wp:Fifth-generation programming_language

Group by similarity

• Category:Assembly - Category:Assembler_language
• Category:BASIC - Category:BASIC Implementations - Category:BASIC_related

• Category:C_related - Java - Forth - ...
• Category:LISP_and_Scheme - Category:LISP_and_Scheme_family - ...
• wp:Category:Logo programming language family
• Category:Pascal - Category:Pascal Implementations
  • Category:Component Pascal - Category:Delphi - Category:Object Pascal
• Category:Prolog - ...

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