Comparative study of programming languages
- 1. HOLKAR SCIENCE COLLEGE INDORE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES SUBMITTED BY ♦ Prabhat Kumar Singh ♦ B.Sc. IV Sem ♦ B1 Section GUIDED BY
- 2. INDEX ♣ Programming Languages : An Introduction ♣ Comparison Criteria ♣ Comparing Languages ♣ Intended Usage ♣ Statistical Data ♣ Learning From Comparing Languages ♣ Conclusion
- 3. An Introduction A programming language is an artificial language designed to express computations that can be performed by a machine, particularly a computer. Why Comparison is required ? ♦ To know more about syntax, usability, support, features, efficiency, maintenance, exception handling, portability. ♦ To cater problem domain requirements. ♦ Infrastructure requirements and resource availability.
- 4. Comparison Criteria ♦ Readability ♦ Writeability ♦ Line of Code ♦ Web development ♦ Ease of Learning ♦ Execution Time ♦ Memory Consumption ♦ Exception Handling ♦ Security ♦ Verbosity ♦ Portability ♦ Intended Use in industry
- 5. COMPARING LANGUAGES ♦ C ♦Python ♦Java ♦C++ C Efficient in Execution Time. Efficient in Memory Consumption. Lesser Line of Code. C++ Flexible Declarations. Multiple Inheritance. Operator Overloading. Good Portability. Exception Handling.
- 6. Java Faster. Web Development is easy in java. Maintenance is easy in java. Error are self-explanatory which makes debugging easier. Java is architectural neutral, it is independent of hardware. Verbose. Comparison (Contd..) Python Multiple Paradigms. Variable declaration is not required. Dynamic Type System. Python used white space indentation.
- 7. INTENDED USAGE ♣ The main intend of C is for the system development work, Particularly for the operating system because code runs as fast as written in assembly language. Some domain that use C are following, Operating Systems, Network Drivers, Database, Assemblers, Compilers. ♣ The Programming Language C++ is used in high performance software, resource-constrained programming, large scale software infrastructure, and building real time applications as 3D Games.
- 8. ♣ The Programming Language Java is very versatile language and is used in many business domains for instance financial services, trading system, and portals. Many games are also developed on java. INTENDED USAGE (contd..) ♣ The Python is high-level general purpose language and used image processing, text processing, web, and building enterprise level apps using scientific, numeric and data from network. The vast no. of libraries make it one of the language with many ramifications of usage. A superset of Python, Cython is designed to give C-like performance with code which is mostly written in Python.
- 9. STATISTICAL DATA Comparison for parsing a big XML file.
- 10. Learning from Comparing Languages Awareness of different programming techniques that will help to build better applications. Open our mind towards learning new things to do projects in short time span. Developing a Mindset for comparing the things logically with some evaluation criteria. Working in team under stringent deadlines can become easier.
- 11. Conclusion The conclusion drawn from the experimentation is that there is no standard criteria from which one language can be proved better than the other. A healthy comparison can be done based on different evaluation criteria. The choice of language mainly depends on the problem domain and the resources available. The IEEE Spectrum in 2017 marked Python as the no. 1 languages in popularity with C, Java and C++ consecutively on 2nd, 3rd, and 4th positions.
- 12. “A language that doesn’t have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do.” -- Dennis M. Ritchie