Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: Derek Jones Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Programming language similarity Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 00:00:40 +0100 Organization: Compilers Central Lines: 15 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <22-04-012@comp.compilers> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="64575"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: question, comment Posted-Date: 24 Apr 2022 22:49:00 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:2978 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]