CSE341 Links

• 99 Bottles of Beer: Programs written in over 1000 different languages to produce the classic song as output.

• Coder vs Cannibal Quiz: Can you spot the inventors of programming languages versus the serial killers?

• Hello World Page: Who knew you could write the classic program in so many different languages?

• Wikipedia entry: Wikipedia is an excellent source of information about programming languages.

• History of Programming Languages Poster: This is a great visual timeline of programming languages and their influences. I have this on the wall in my office.

• Computer Language Shootout: This page compares the performance of many popular programming languages on a wide variety of benchmarks. It includes all of the languages we will be studying.

• MLton: An optimizing ML compiler that produces very efficient code. This is a compiler for people who like ML and want to use it for serious software development. For example, check out this comparison of SML and C++ for a ray tracer.

• Lisp Quotes collected by software developer Paul Graham.

• Tony Hoare's "billion dollar mistake" of introducing null references to represent an empty structure: short quote, video.

• MIT's SCIgen that randomly generates research papers.