by Robert Jervis
Parasol, short for "Parallel Systems Object Language," is a development environment influenced by C and Smalltalk, although its design also reflects C++, CLU, Algol, and Turbo Pascal.
by Oliver Sharp
Perl, a language designed to handle a variety of network system-administration tasks, makes manipulating the socket protocol easier still. Oliver shows how to write Perl scripts that communicate across networks of UNIX machines.
by Stephen M. Omohundro
Sather is a language that's simple, interactive, and nonproprietary. It sports parameterized classes, object-oriented display, statically checked strong typing, multiple inheritance, garbage collection, and more.
by Sam Harbison
Feature-for-feature, Modula-3 is on a par with Ada and C++, but avoids complexity by simplifying individual features like inheritance and generics. Furthermore, Modula-3 is less of a moving target because it already has features only now being added to those other languages.
by David Betz
This tiny C-like object-oriented language, developed by the creator of XLisp, XScheme, and other well-known public-domain languages, is a powerful extension language.
by John K. Ousterhout
Tcl (pronounced "tickle") is a command language John designed to be a powerful and flexible "glue" language for assembling software components.
by Al Stevens
Quincy, a C interpreter with a front end based on Al's D-Flat windowing system, is fast, small, and efficient.
by Tamme D. Bowen and Kelly M. Hall
Originally based on Scheme, Dylan is an object-oriented, dynamic language designed to replace existing static languages for the development of large software systems.
by Josef Templ
Oberon, a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language that evolved from Pascal and Modula-2, has been implemented for DOS, Windows, Amiga, Mac, and UNIX.
by Jonathan Erickson
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