Programming Languages
Programmer Productivity
Reference: The Comparative Productivity of Programming Languages
| Language | Hours Per Function Point |
| Classic ASP | 06.1 |
| Visual Basic | 08.5 |
| Java | 10.6 |
| SQL | 10.8 |
| C++ | 12.4 |
| C | 13.0 |
| C# | 15.5 |
| PL/1 | 14.2 |
| COBOL | 16.8 |
| ABAP | 19.9 |
Tiobe Software Top 50
Reference: Tiobe Software
| Programming Language | Tiobe Rank |
Wikipedia Reference |
Delbert's Skill |
| C | 1 |  |
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| Java | 2 | |
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| Objective-C | 3 | |
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| C++ - ISO/IEC 14882 | 4 | |
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| C# - ISO/IEC 23270 | 5 | |
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| PHP | 6 | |
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| Visual Basic | 7 | |
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| Python | 8 | |
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| Perl | 9 | |
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| Ruby | 10 | |
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| JavaScript | 11 | |
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| Object Pascal | 12 | |
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| Lisp - ISO/IEC 13816 | 13 | |
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| Visual Basic .NET | 14 | |
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| T-SQL (Transact-SQL) | 15 | |
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| Pascal - ISO 7185 | 16 | |
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| Lua | 17 | |
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| Ada | 18 | |
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| PL/SQL | 19 | |
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| MATLAB | 20 | |
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| Bash | 21 | |
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| SAS | 22 | |
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| Assembly language | 23 | |
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| IBM RPG | 24 | |
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| Logo | 25 | |
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| Fortran - ISO/IEC 1539 | 26 | |
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| R | 27 | |
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| COBOL - ISO/IEC 1989 | 28 | |
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| ABAP | 29 | |
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| Scheme | 30 | |
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| Prolog | 31 | |
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| Scratch | 32 | |
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| D | 33 | |
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| Haskell | 34 | |
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| NXT-G | 35 | |
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| JScript.NET | 36 | |
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| Erlang | 37 | |
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| AWK | 38 | |
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| Smalltalk | 39 | |
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| Scala | 40 | |
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| Common Lisp (also known as CL) | 41 | |
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| Forth | 42 | |
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| APL | 43 | |
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| ML | 44 | |
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| ActionScript | 45 | |
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| OpenEdge ABL | 46 | |
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| ALGOL 68 | 47 | |
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| C Shell | 48 | |
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| Alice | 49 | |
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| PL/I - ISO 6160 | 50 | |
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Programming Languages
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| Programming Language | Wikipedia Reference |
Delbert's Skill |
| A# .NET | |
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| A# (Axiom) | |
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| A-0 System | |
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| A+ | |
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| A++ | |
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| ABAP | |
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| ABC | |
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| ABC ALGOL | |
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| ABLE | |
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| ABSET | |
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| ABSYS | |
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| Abundance | |
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| ACC | |
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| Accent | |
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| Ace DASL | |
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| ACT-III | |
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| Action! | |
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| ActionScript | |
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| Ada | |
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| Adenine | |
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| Agda | |
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| Agora | |
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| AIMMS | |
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| Alef | |
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| ALF | |
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| ALGOL 58 | |
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| ALGOL 60 | |
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| ALGOL 68 | |
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| Alice | |
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| Alma-0 | |
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| AmbientTalk | |
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| Amiga E | |
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| AMOS | |
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| AMPL | |
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| APL | |
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| AppleScript | |
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| Arc | |
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| Arden Syntax | |
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| ARexx | |
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| Argus | |
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| ASP/VBScript - Classic ASP | |
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| ASP/JScript - Classic ASP | |
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| AspectJ | |
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| Assembly language | |
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| ATS | |
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| Ateji PX | |
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| AutoHotkey | |
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| Autocoder | |
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| AutoIt | |
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| AutoLISP / Visual LISP | |
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| Averest | |
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| AWK | |
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| Axum | |
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| Programming Language | Wikipedia Reference |
Delbert's Skill |
| B | |
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| Babbage | |
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| BASIC | |
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| bc | |
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| BCPL | |
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| BeanShell | |
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| Bash | |
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| Batch (Windows/Dos) | |
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| Bertrand | |
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| BETA | |
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| Bigwig | |
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| Bistro | |
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| BitC | |
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| BLISS | |
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| Blue | |
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| Bon | |
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| Boo | |
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| Boomerang | |
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| Borne Shell (sh) | |
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| BREW | |
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| BPEL | |
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| BUGSYS | |
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| BuildProfessional | |
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| Programming Language | Wikipedia Reference |
Delbert's Skill |
| C | |
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| C++ - ISO/IEC 14882 | |
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| C-- | |
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| C# - ISO/IEC 23270 | |
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| C Shell | |
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| C/AL | |
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| Caché ObjectScript | |
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| Caml | |
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| Candle | |
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| Cayenne | |
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| CDuce | |
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| Cecil | |
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| Cel | |
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| Cesil | |
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| Ceylon | |
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| CFML | |
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| Cg | |
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| Chapel | |
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| CHAIN | |
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| Charity | |
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| Charm | |
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| Chef | |
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| CHILL | |
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| CHIP-8 | |
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| chomski | |
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| Chrome (now Oxygene) | |
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| ChucK | |
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| CICS | |
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| Cilk | |
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| CL (IBM) | |
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| Claire | |
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| Clarion | |
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| Clean | |
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| Clipper | |
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| CLIST | |
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| Clojure | |
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| CLU | |
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| CMS-2 | |
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| COBOL - ISO/IEC 1989 | |
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| CobolScript | |
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| Cobra | |
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| CODE | |
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| CoffeeScript | |
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| Cola | |
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| ColdC | |
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| ColdFusion | |
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| Cool | |
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| COMAL | |
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| Combined Programming Language (CPL) | |
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| Common Intermediate Language (CIL) | |
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| Common Lisp (also known as CL) | |
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| COMPASS | |
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| Component Pascal | |
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| COMIT | |
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| Constraint Handling Rules (CHR) | |
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| Converge | |
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| Coral 66 | |
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| Corn | |
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| CorVision | |
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| Coq | |
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| COWSEL | |
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| CPL | |
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| csh | |
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| CSP | |
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| Csound | |
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| Curl | |
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| Curry | |
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| Cyclone | |
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| Cython | |
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| Programming Language | Wikipedia Reference |
Delbert's Skill |
| D | |
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| DASL (Datapoint's Advanced Systems Language) |
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| DASL (Distributed Application Specification Language) |
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| Dart | |
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| DataFlex | |
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| Datalog | |
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| DATATRIEVE | |
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| dBase | |
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| dc | |
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| DCL | |
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| Deesel (formerly G) | |
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| Delphi | |
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| DHTML | |
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| DinkC | |
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| DIBOL | |
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| DL/I | |
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| Draco | |
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| Dylan | |
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| DYNAMO | |
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| Programming Language | Wikipedia Reference |
Delbert's Skill |
| E | |
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| E# | |
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| Ease | |
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| Easy PL/I | |
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| EASYTRIEVE PLUS | |
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| ECMAScript | |
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| Edinburgh IMP | |
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| EGL | |
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| Eiffel | |
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| ELAN | |
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| Emacs Lisp | |
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| Emerald | |
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| Epigram | |
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| Erlang | |
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| Escapade | |
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| Escher | |
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| ESPOL | |
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| Esterel | |
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| Etoys | |
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| Euclid | |
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| Euler | |
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| Euphoria | |
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| EusLisp Robot Programming Language | |
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| CMS EXEC | |
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| EXEC 2 | |
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| Programming Language | Wikipedia Reference |
Delbert's Skill |
| F | |
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| F# | |
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| Factor | |
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| Falcon | |
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| Fancy | |
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| Fantom | |
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| FAUST | |
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| Felix | |
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| Ferite | |
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| FFP | |
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| Fjölnir | |
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| FL | |
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| Flavors | |
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| Flex | |
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| FLOW-MATIC | |
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| FOCAL | |
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| FOCUS | |
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| FOIL | |
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| FORMAC | |
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| @Formula | |
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| Forth | |
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| Fortran - ISO/IEC 1539 | |
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| Fortress | |
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| FoxBase | |
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| FoxPro | |
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| FP | |
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| FPr | |
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| Franz Lisp | |
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| Frink | |
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| F-Script | |
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| FSProg | |
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| Fuxi | |
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| Programming Language | Wikipedia Reference |
Delbert's Skill |
| G | |
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| Game Maker Language | |
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| GameMonkey Script | |
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| GAMS | |
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| GAP | |
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| G-code | |
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| Genie | |
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| GDL | |
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| Gibiane | |
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| GJ | |
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| GEORGE (programming language) | |
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| GLSL | |
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| GNU E | |
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| GM | |
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| Go | |
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| Go! | |
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| GOAL | |
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| Gödel | |
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| Godiva | |
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| GOM (Good Old Mad) | |
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| Goo | |
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| GOTRAN | |
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| GPSS | |
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| GraphTalk | |
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| GRASS | |
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| Groovy | |
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| Programming Language | Wikipedia Reference |
Delbert's Skill |
| HAL/S | |
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| Hamilton C shell | |
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| Harbour | |
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| Haskell | |
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| Haxe | |
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| High Level Assembly | |
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| HLSL | |
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| Hop | |
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| Hope | |
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| HTML | |
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| HTML5 | |
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| Hugo | |
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| Hume | |
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| HyperTalk | |
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| Programming Language | Wikipedia Reference |
Delbert's Skill |
| IBM Basic assembly language | |
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| IBM HAScript | |
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| IBM Informix-4GL | |
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| IBM RPG | |
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| ICI | |
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| Icon | |
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| Id | |
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| IDL | |
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| IMP | |
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| Inform | |
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| Io | |
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| Ioke | |
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| IPL | |
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| IPTSCRAE | |
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| ISLISP | |
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| ISPF | |
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| ISWIM | |
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- J -
| Programming Language | Wikipedia Reference |
Delbert's Skill |
| J | |
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| J# | |
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| J++ | |
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| JADE | |
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| Jako | |
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| JAL | |
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| Janus | |
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| JASS | |
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| Java | |
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| JavaFX Script | |
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| JavaScript | |
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| JCL | |
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| JEAN | |
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| Join Java | |
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| JOSS | |
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| Joule | |
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| JOVIAL | |
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| Joy | |
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| JScript | |
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| JScript.NET | |
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- K -
| Programming Language | Wikipedia Reference |
Delbert's Skill |
| K | |
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| Kaleidoscope | |
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| Karel | |
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| Karel++ | |
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| Kaya | |
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| KEE | |
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| KIF | |
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| KRC | |
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| KRL | |
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| KUKA Robot Language | |
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| KRYPTON | |
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| ksh | |
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- L -
| Programming Language | Wikipedia Reference |
Delbert's Skill |
| L | |
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| L# .NET | |
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| LabVIEW | |
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| Ladder | |
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| Lagoona | |
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| LANSA | |
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| Lasso | |
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| LaTeX | |
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| Lava | |
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| LC-3 | |
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| Leadwerks Script | |
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| Leda | |
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| Legoscript | |
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| LIL | |
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| LilyPond | |
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| Limbo | |
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| Limnor | |
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| LINC | |
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| Lingo | |
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| Linoleum | |
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| LIS | |
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| LISA | |
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| Lisaac | |
|
| Lisp - ISO/IEC 13816 | |
|
| Lite-c | |
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| Lithe | |
|
| Little b | |
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| Logtalk | |
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| LPC | |
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| LSE | |
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| LSL | |
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| LiveCode | |
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| Logo | |
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| Lua | |
|
| Lucid | |
|
| Lustre | |
|
| LYaPAS | |
|
| Lynx | |
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- M -
| Programming Language | Wikipedia Reference |
Delbert's Skill |
| M | |
|
| M2001 | |
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| M4 | |
|
| Machine code | |
|
| MAD (Michigan Algorithm Decoder) | |
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| MAD/I | |
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| Magik | |
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| Magma | |
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| make | |
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| Maple | |
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| Mary | |
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| MASM Microsoft Assembly x86 | |
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| Mathematica | |
|
| MATLAB | |
|
| Macsyma | |
|
| Max (Max Msp ) (Graphical Programming Environment) |
|
|
| MaxScript internal language 3D Studio Max |
|
|
| Maya (MEL) | |
|
| MDL | |
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| Mercury | |
|
| Mesa | |
|
| Metacard | |
|
| Metafont | |
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| MetaL | |
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| Microcode | |
|
| MicroScript | |
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| MIIS | |
|
| MillScript | |
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| MIMIC | |
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| Mirah | |
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| Miranda | |
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| MIVA Script | |
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| ML | |
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| Moby | |
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| Model 204 | |
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| Modelica | |
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| Modula | |
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| Modula-2 | |
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| Modula-3 | |
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| Mohol | |
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| MOO | |
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| Mortran | |
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| Mouse | |
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| MPD | |
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| MSL | |
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| MUMPS | |
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| Programming Language | Wikipedia Reference |
Delbert's Skill |
| Napier88 | |
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| NASM | |
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| NATURAL | |
|
| Neko | |
|
| Nemerle | |
|
| NESL | |
|
| Net.Data | |
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| NetLogo | |
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| NetRexx | |
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| NewLISP | |
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| NEWP | |
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| Newspeak | |
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| NewtonScript | |
|
| NGL | |
|
| Nial | |
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| Nice | |
|
| Nickle | |
|
| NPL | |
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| Not eXactly C (NXC) | |
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| Not Quite C (NQC) | |
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| Nu | |
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| NSIS | |
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| NXT-G | |
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| Programming Language | Wikipedia Reference |
Delbert's Skill |
| o:XML | |
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| Oak | |
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| Oberon | |
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| Obix | |
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| OBJ2 | |
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| Object Lisp | |
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| ObjectLOGO | |
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| Object Pascal | |
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| Object REXX | |
|
| Objective-C | |
|
| Objective-J | |
|
| Obliq | |
|
| Obol | |
|
| OCaml | |
|
| occam | |
|
| occam-p | |
|
| Octave | |
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| OmniMark | |
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| Onyx | |
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| Opa | |
|
| Opal | |
|
| OpenEdge ABL | |
|
| OPL | |
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| OPS5 | |
|
| OptimJ | |
|
| Orc | |
|
| ORCA/Modula-2 | |
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| Oriel | |
|
| Orwell | |
|
| Oxygene | |
|
| Oz | |
|
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- P -
| Programming Language | Wikipedia Reference |
Delbert's Skill |
| P# | |
|
| PARI/GP | |
|
| Pascal - ISO 7185 | |
|
| Pawn | |
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| PCASTL | |
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| PCF | |
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| PEARL | |
|
| Perl | |
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| PeopleCode | |
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| PDL | |
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| Phrogram | |
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| PHP | |
|
| Pico | |
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| Pict | |
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| Pike | |
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| PIKT | |
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| PILOT | |
|
| Pizza | |
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| PL-11 | |
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| PL/0 | |
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| PL/B | |
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| PL/C | |
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| PL/I - ISO 6160 | |
|
| PL/M | |
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| PL/P | |
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| PL/SQL | |
|
| PL360 | |
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| PLANC | |
|
| Plankalkül | |
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| PLEX | |
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| PLEXIL | |
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| Plus | |
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| POP-11 | |
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| PostScript | |
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| PortablE | |
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| Powerhouse | |
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| PowerBuilder 4GL GUI appl. generator from Sybase |
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| PPL | |
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| Processing | |
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| Processing.js | |
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| Prograph | |
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| PROIV | |
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| Prolog | |
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| Promela | |
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| PROTEL | |
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| ProvideX | |
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| Pro*C | |
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| Pure | |
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| Python | |
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- Q -
| Programming Language | Wikipedia Reference |
Delbert's Skill |
| Q (equational programming language | |
|
| Q (programming language from Kx Systems) | |
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| QBasic | |
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| Qi | |
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| QtScript | |
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| QuakeC | |
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| QuickBasic | |
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| QPL | |
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- R -
| Programming Language | Wikipedia Reference |
Delbert's Skill |
| R | |
|
| R++ | |
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| Racket | |
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| RAPID | |
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| Rapira | |
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| Ratfiv | |
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| Ratfor | |
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| rc | |
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| REBOL | |
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| Redcode | |
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| REFAL | |
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| Reia | |
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| Revolution | |
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| rex | |
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| REXX | |
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| Rlab | |
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| RoboFTP Scripting | |
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| ROOP | |
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| RPG | |
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| RPL | |
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| RSL | |
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| RTL/2 | |
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| Ruby | |
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| Rust | |
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| Programming Language | Wikipedia Reference |
Delbert's Skill |
| S | |
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| S2 | |
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| S3 | |
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| S-Lang | |
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| S-PLUS | |
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| SA-C | |
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| SabreTalk | |
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| SAIL | |
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| SALSA | |
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| SAM76 | |
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| SAS | |
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| SASL | |
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| Sather | |
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| Sawzall | |
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| SBL | |
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| Scala | |
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| Scheme | |
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| Scratch | |
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| Scilab | |
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| Script.NET | |
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| Sed | |
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| Seed7 | |
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| Self | |
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| SenseTalk | |
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| SETL | |
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| Shift Script | |
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| SiMPLE | |
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| SIMPOL | |
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| SIMSCRIPT | |
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| Simula | |
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| Simulink | |
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| SISAL | |
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| SLIP | |
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| SMALL | |
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| Small Basic | |
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| Smalltalk | |
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| SML | |
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| SPITBOL | |
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| Snowball | |
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| SOL | |
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| Span | |
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| SPARK | |
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| SPIN | |
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| SP/k | |
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| SPS | |
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| Squeak | |
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| Squirrel | |
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| SR | |
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| S/SL | |
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| Starlogo | |
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| Strand | |
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| STATA | |
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| Stateflow | |
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| Subtext | |
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| Suneido | |
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| SuperCollider | |
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| SuperTalk | |
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| SYMPL | |
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| SyncCharts | |
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| SystemVerilog | |
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| Programming Language | Wikipedia Reference |
Delbert's Skill |
| T | |
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| TACL | |
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| TACPOL | |
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| TADS | |
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| TAL | |
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| Tcl | |
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| Tea | |
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| TECO | |
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| TELCOMP | |
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| TeX | |
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| TEX | |
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| TIE | |
|
| Timber | |
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| TMG | |
|
| Tom | |
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| TOM | |
|
| Topspeed | |
|
| TPU | |
|
| Trac | |
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| T-SQL (Transact-SQL) | |
|
| TTCN | |
|
| Turing | |
|
| TUTOR | |
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| TXL | |
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| Programming Language | Wikipedia Reference |
Delbert's Skill |
| Ubercode | |
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| UCSD Pascal | |
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| Unicon | |
|
| Uniface | |
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| UNITY | |
|
| Unix shell | |
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| UnrealScript | |
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- V -
| Programming Language | Wikipedia Reference |
Delbert's Skill |
| Vala | |
|
| VBA | |
|
| VBScript | |
|
| Verilog | |
|
| VHDL | |
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| Visual Basic | |
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| Visual Basic .NET | |
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| Visual C# | |
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| Visual DataFlex | |
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| Visual DialogScript | |
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| Visual FoxPro | |
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| Visual J++ | |
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| Visual J# | |
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| Visual Objects | |
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| Visual Prolog | |
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| VSXu | |
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| Vvvv | |
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| Programming Language | Wikipedia Reference |
Delbert's Skill |
| WATFIV, WATFOR | |
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| WebDNA | |
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| WebQL | |
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| Winbatch | |
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| WSH/VBScript | |
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Delbert's Skill |
| X++ | |
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| X10 | |
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| XBL | |
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| XMOS architecture) | |
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| xHarbour | |
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| XHTML | |
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| XL | |
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| XOTcl | |
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| XPL | |
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| XPL0 | |
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| XQuery | |
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| XSB | |
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| XPath | |
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Delbert's Skill |
| Yorick | |
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| YQL | |
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| Programming Language | Wikipedia Reference |
Delbert's Skill |
| Z notation | |
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| Zeno | |
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| ZOPL | |
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| ZPL | |
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