Welcome!

This is an on-going project to provide information on a variety of programming languages.  It is intended as a reference for students and practitioners. 

For the most part, I have tried to find the best information put it in my own words.  However, sometimes it is better to take good words and present them -- I have done that here (check out the .Net technology section).

The language background page offers a general overview of programming languages.  The "template" page provides an outline of how I will be looking at programming languages.  If you have any suggestions or ideas to improve this, please let me know.

Something to keep in mind: I have tried to present a "vendor" neutral view of programming languages whenever possible.  This means two things:

1. If the language is not vendor neutral, e.g., Visual Basic by Microsoft, this point does not apply.
2. For other languages, e.g., C, there are always subtleties in implementations by various vendors.  I thought about trying to account for them all -- but I'm not crazy and there are aren't enough hours in the day.

The point of these pages is to provide some quick and basic background on a variety of programming languages.  It will also provide references to web sites and resources for more information.