Jul 09
This is part 3 in a series of articles on obscure programming languages.
The Cyclone programming language is a safe dialect of C. Pure Cyclone programs are not vulnerable to a wide class of bugs that plague C programs: buffer overflows, format string attacks, double free bugs, dangling pointer accesses, etc.
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May 24
This is part 2 in a series of articles on obscure programming languages.
Boo is an object-oriented, statically-typed programming language for .NET with a Python-inspired syntax and a focus on language and compiler extensibility. Boo is an open-source language, licensed under an MIT/BSD-style license, meaning that you can view and modify the Boo source code for both personal and commercial use.
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Apr 25
This is the first in what will be a series of articles, each highlighting an obscure programming language.
There are over 2700 languages spoken on Earth. And while there are only about a dozen popular programming languages, there are over 400 known programming languages, many of which you can see in this extensive "Hello World" collection.
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