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Instantiating JavaCC Tokenizers/Parsers To Read From Unicode Source Files
White Papers JavaCC is a popular parser-generator used to implement parsers for programming languages. This makes it possible to define new programming languages that contain Unicode strings or even Unicode identifiers and operators.
[June 27, 2007, 0:00]
Study: Java To Overtake C/C++ In 2002
News Developers using Sun Microsystems' Java programming language will outnumber those using the C/C++ languages by next year, the findings of a series of studies conducted by Evans Data and released late on Wednesday show.
[August 17, 2001, 9:11]
C++ Creator: It's Bigger Than Ever
News The creator of the C++ programming language claims that there has been a backlash against some of the newer programming languages such as Java and C#, with developers moving back to using C++. Bjarne Stroustrup, who currently works as a professor...
[April 22, 2005, 14:20]
Open-source Eclipse Unveils Ajax Projects
News The Eclipse software is widely used for writing applications in Java and other programming languages. The Ajax projects, announced at the annual EclipseCon conference, are meant to make a wider number of tools available for JavaScript programming...
[March 8, 2007, 8:41]
Borland Targets .Net Developers
News Borland, hoping to appeal to companies seeking an alternative to Microsoft, will extend the .Net Framework -- the "plumbing" underlying .Net -- to operate with a mix of operating systems and programming languages, said company executives.
[February 5, 2003, 11:00]
Microsoft's New Visual Basic - A .Not?
News Visual Studio.Net comprises Microsoft .Net versions of a number of Microsoft programming languages, including Visual Basic, Visual C++ and the new C# (pronounced "C-sharp"). But a number of developers working with the first beta of one of the...
[January 19, 2001, 8:16]
GCC 4.0 Boosts Code Performance
News Its support for a wide range of programming languages and target platforms has made it a key part of the FSF's efforts to produce as much free software as possible. GCC 4.0, which was released last week, includes improvements to its optimiser...
[April 26, 2005, 13:05]
IBM Open-source Project To Release Tools
News The Eclipse project -- which now has the backing of more than 150 software companies, including Borland, Rational Software, Red Hat and Sybase -- supports the Java, C, C++, C# and Cobol programming languages.
[September 9, 2002, 14:11]
Microsoft Rebuilds .Net Tools
News With the Whidbey update to Visual Studio.Net, developers will be able to use a number of programming languages to write applications that run in SQL Server. Released about a year ago, Visual Studio.Net is a bundle of tools that lets developers work...
[February 11, 2003, 15:20]
Latest Language In Web Services: Cobol
News Cobol (common business oriented language) was one of the first high level programming languages, developed in 1959 under the sponsorship of Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. By the middle of 2003, Cobol will be one of the languages which can run as...
[November 7, 2002, 8:46]
Borland Takes On Microsoft With Developer Tools
News It will also support Microsoft's Common Language Runtime, which allows software developers to use many types of programming languages to write applications that run on Windows and Windows-based server software.
[August 23, 2002, 11:45]
IBM, Microsoft Clash Over .Net And Java
News In particular, said Edwards, Microsoft's decision to support dozens of programming languages was fundamentally flawed. Programmers don't come screaming to me saying 'I want five different programming languages,'" he said, stressing the wide...
[March 4, 2002, 16:00]
W3C Marks 'milestone' In DOM Protocol
News It's not just in the DOM, it's in the XML parsers, and in the different programming languages like Perl and Java. XML, or extensible markup language, is a W3C recommendation for creating task- or industry-specific markup languages that are more...
[April 8, 2004, 9:05]
Programming Geeks Fight To The Finish
News More common is the imperative programming paradigm, which includes languages such as C and Java and works by giving step-by-step instructions. Functional languages have been well represented in the ICFP winners' circle.
[September 2, 2002, 7:53]
A Design Rationale For C++/CLI
White Papers Languages that do not support CLI programming have no direct access to such libraries, and programmers who want to use those features are forced to use one of the 20 or so other languages that do support CLI development.
[December 28, 2006, 23:00]
How To Speak SAP's Language
News Whereas other languages require complex programming to achieve this sort of event-oriented execution, ABAP/4 is loaded with conveniences to enable it. Whether you're already an SAP consultant, a consultant considering SAP, or an IT pro working in...
[January 14, 2003, 11:38]
Artificial Intelligence: Working Backwards From HAL
Talkback This suggests that text based programming languages do not satisfactorily provide a platform for “reasoning”. New languages (like the KEEL dynamic graphical language) will be required to define the reasoning models.
[April 3, 2006, 16:54]
Gates Unveils Visual Studio.Net
News Microsoft's new tools allow people to develop in more than 20 programming languages, ranging from older languages such as COBOL to newer ones such as Microsoft's C#. Just in time for Valentine's Day, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates wooed software...
[February 14, 2002, 9:03]
Microsoft Hopes To Lure Java Developers
News The XML Web services capabilities we built into .Net solve one of the major challenges that developers face, and that applies across all programming languages: Visual Basic, C#, and J# in particular as the Java language environment.
[March 26, 2002, 12:11]
Sun's Fortran Replacement Goes Open Source
News Sun, by virtue of its successful Java language, has a notable track record introducing new programming languages. There are a lot of features in Fortran that make it difficult for programmers to write as efficiently as they can in modern...
[January 15, 2007, 14:33]
