Programming language similarity

From	Derek Jones <derek@NOSPAM-knosof.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Programming language similarity
Date	2022-04-25 00:00 +0100
Organization	Compilers Central
Message-ID	<22-04-012@comp.compilers> (permalink)

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All,

There has been remarkably little work that tries to measure
programming language similarity.

Yes, there are many multi-language runtime benchmark comparisons, and
people extract data from Wikipedia to made dubious claims.

Does anybody know of other kinds of attempts at measuring language
similarity?

Here is one approach
https://shape-of-code.com/2022/04/24/programming-language-similarity-based-on-their-traits/
[That seems awfully simplistic.  Fortran and PL/I both have FORMAT statements that look
superficially similar but the semantics are very different. -John]

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Programming language similarity Derek Jones <derek@NOSPAM-knosof.co.uk> - 2022-04-25 00:00 +0100
  Re: Programming language similarity Derek Jones <derek@NOSPAM-knosof.co.uk> - 2022-04-25 08:59 +0100
  Re: Programming language similarity Fernando <pronesto@gmail.com> - 2022-04-25 04:24 -0700
    Re: Programming language similarity Derek Jones <derek@NOSPAM-knosof.co.uk> - 2022-04-25 19:35 +0100
  Re: Programming language similarity Jan Ziak <0xe2.0x9a.0x9b@gmail.com> - 2022-04-25 06:00 -0700
    Re: Programming language similarity Derek Jones <derek@NOSPAM-knosof.co.uk> - 2022-04-25 20:51 +0100
      Re: Programming language similarity gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-04-25 14:58 -0700
        Re: Programming language similarity Derek Jones <derek@NOSPAM-knosof.co.uk> - 2022-04-26 00:50 +0100
  Re: Programming language similarity Meshach Mitchell <meshach.mitchell@gmail.com> - 2022-04-25 12:06 -0400

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