Re: Programming language similarity

From	Derek Jones <derek@NOSPAM-knosof.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Programming language similarity
Date	2022-04-25 08:59 +0100
Organization	Compilers Central
Message-ID	<22-04-013@comp.compilers> (permalink)
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John,

> 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]

Many keywords have different meanings, e.g., the do keyword in Fortran/C.

Even binary operators differ, binary plus for string concatenation.

The blog post uses a token based approach, which does not require
lots of time to gather the data.

A semantics based approach requires lots of head scratching. I made a
start by collecting information on function definitions (mostly forms
of argument passing). The semantic traits I looked at tended to have a
small number of characteristics, so some form of aggregating is needed
to create significant differences.

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