Questions tagged [language-comparisons]

Questions comparing two or more programming or markup languages against each other.

Usage guidance

Questions and answers on Stackoverflow are generally intended to discuss specific features with one or more repeatable and unambiguous solutions.

Consequently, the language-comparisons tag is intended to cover cases where:

  • two or more languages implement the same or substantially similar functionality
  • the functionality comparison is capable of unambiguous identification and resolution
  • such resolution does not require extended discussion or rely solely on subjective personal opinions or personal preference
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How does one define and describe these different points in time?

Background: Eldridge asked me to explain what the difference is between the difference phases of time when it comes to writing and deploying code. He wants to know: 1) what is the difference between: 1) design time; 2) compile time; 3)…
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Are THEN and END IF the exact equivalent of curly brackets

Does the compiler see the same thing when it sees THEN...END IF(in Vb) and { ... }(in C#) which are what seems to be delimiting If statements. If they are treated the same way, why can I do this in C# : if(true) int x = 1; //Instead of if(true) {…
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(objective) C side by side translations / comparison to another language

The language comparison / translation on the Dart language website helped me tremendously in learning javascript even though I did not know either Dart or Javascript much! link, http://synonym.dartlang.org/ Is there something similar for objective C…
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Programming languages comparison for web data mining task

I need some help comparing different programming languages, such as: C++, Java, Python, Ruby and PHP, for a task which is related for web data mining (developing web crawler, string manipulations and etc.). I have a bit experience with PHP, and I…
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