General Purpose Programming Language

Caml is a general-purpose programming language, designed with program safety and reliability in mind. It is very expressive, yet easy to learn and use. Caml supports functional, imperative, and object-oriented programming styles. It has been developed and distributed by INRIA, Frances national... Platforms: *nix

Seed7 is a general purpose programming language designed by Thomas Mertes. Seed7 project is a higher level language compared to Ada, C/C++ and Java. The Seed7 interpreter and the example programs are open-source software. An open-source Seed7 compiler is also under development. In Seed7 new... Platforms: *nix

Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages, enabling Java and other programmers to be more productive. Code sizes are... Platforms: Windows

Seed7 is a general purpose programming language designed by Thomas Mertes. It is a higher level language compared to Ada, C/C++ and Java. The Seed7 interpreter and the example programs are open-source software. There is also an open-source Seed7 compiler. The compiler compiles Seed7 programs to C... Platforms: *nix

Mumps (also referred to as M) is a general purpose programming language that supports a unique, hierarchical (or multidimensional) database facility. It was originally developed in the late 1960s and the acronym stands for the Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-programming System. It... Platforms: *nix

Onyx is a powerful stack-based, multi-threaded, interpreted, general purpose programming language similar to PostScript. It can be embedded as an extension language similarly to ficl (Forth), guile (scheme), librep (lisp dialect), s-lang, Lua, and Tcl.. Platforms: *nix

The General Intensional Programming System (GIPSY) consists in three modular sub-systems: The General Intensional Programming Language Compiler (GIPC) ; the General Eduction Engine (GEE), and the Intensional Run-time Programming Environment (RIPE). Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

2E Programming Language (two es, as in ee, or expression evaluator) is a simple algebraic syntax language. It natively supports expressions (composed of operators and operands), and function definitions, and basically nothing else. Therefore, it can be fairly straight-forward to learn (assuming... Platforms: *nix

Qu is a powerful full-featured object oriented programming language. It is an Open Source software. The Qu Programming Language is absolutely free (as in free lunch) and distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Qu is inspired by other languages. Most noticeably Perl, Python, Ruby... Platforms: *nix

The Hecl Programming Language is a high-level scripting language implemented in Java. Hecl Programming Language is intended to be small, extensible, extremely flexible, and easy to learn and use. Hecl is intended as a complement to the Java programming language, not a replacement. As such, it... Platforms: *nix

PATH is a very different programming language than what you are probably used to if youre an average programmer. If youve programmed in the language Brainf*ck, youll recognize the memory cell architecture. Also, Befunge programmers will recognize the two-dimensional way that PATH programs are... Platforms: *nix

Felix is an advanced Algol like procedural programming language with a strong functional subsystem. It features ML style typing, first class functions, pattern matching, garabge collection, polymorphism, and has built in support for high performance microthreading, regular expressions and context... Platforms: *nix

Io is small prototype-based programming language. The ideas in Io are mostly inspired by Smalltalk (all values are objects), Self, NewtonScript and Act1 (prototype-based differential inheritance, actors and futures for concurrency), LISP (code is a runtime inspectable/modifiable tree) and Lua... Platforms: *nix

PPL is a FREE, fast and easy-to-learn programming language that is fully object-oriented. PPL runs on all Windows Mobile devices using Windows Mobile 2003, 5 and 6. PPL is also compatible with PC desktop computers. Programs written for one system are 100% compatible with the other. Write high... Platforms: Windows, Pocket PC

XL (eXtensible Language) is a general purpose compiled programming language. XL doesn't force you to use a limited set of concepts (such as 'objects'). Instead, it can be extended (through libraries) to use the concepts that are natural to your a Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Luban is a component oriented scripting language. Luban is free and open source. Luban is named after a legendary ancient Chinese civil engineer and carpenter two thousand year ago whose constructions are still in use today. The programming language spectrum seems crowded. Do we have all the... Platforms: *nix

AFNIX is a multi-threaded functional programming language with dynamic symbol bindings that support the object oriented paradigm. AFNIX programming language features a state of the art runtime engine that supports both 32 and 64 bits platforms. AFNIX is distributed with several clients and a... Platforms: *nix

ELENA is a general-purpose, object-oriented, pure polymorphic language with late binding. It promotes more object-oriented program design, reusable, laconic and more standardized code. The package includes compiler, IDE, ELENA libraries and samples. Platforms: Windows

Qore is a modular, multi-threaded, SQL-integrated, weakly- typed scripting language with procedural and object-oriented features, powerful and easy-to-use data types, structures, and operators, and a clean and easy-to-learn/read syntax. Qore Programming Language features Oracle and MySQL DBI... Platforms: *nix

PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. Instead of lots of commands to output HTML (as seen in C or Perl), PHP pages contain HTML with... Platforms: Linux