Programming language similarity

Derek Jones <derek@NOSPAM-knosof.co.uk>
Mon, 25 Apr 2022 00:00:40 +0100

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From: Derek Jones <derek@NOSPAM-knosof.co.uk>
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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 00:00:40 +0100
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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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