Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA 22401

Instructor: ec Ackermann

This link will take you to papers by students in CPSC 401 on several different computer languages.

• Learning about Ada
• NEW !! Ada (83) Reference Manual
  • -- Just as New -- Excerpt from the manual on Tasks

The WWW Virtual Library section dealing with Programming Languages is a good place to find information about some programming languages.

To join in or observe discussions about issues related to programming languages take a look at list of e-mail discussion groups focusing on programming languages.

The newsgroup for our course is mwc.cpsc.401

Here is a list of newsgroups we carry dealing with compilers and programming languages

• comp.compilers
• comp.lang.ada
• comp.lang.basic.visual
• comp.lang.c
• comp.lang.misc
• comp.lang.pascal
• comp.lang.prolog
• comp.lang.sigplan
• comp.lang.c++
• comp.lang.lisp
• comp.lang.lisp.x
• comp.lang.perl

Click here to browse a list of FAQs( Frequently Asked Questions and Answers) from some of the newsgroups for discussing programming languages.

The gopher server at PSGnet has some information about programming languages.

You may want to see the files on tht ACM Gopher under the special interest group SIGPLAN

Here's another section of the ACM Gopher site that deals with Programming Languages and Language Theory

The simtel anonymous ftp archive has a number of directories dealing with specific programming languages, and most of the software is for MS-DOS computer systems.

The ftp archive site at University of Arizona has some directories dedicated to indiviual languages.

There are a number of Internet resources and sites which serve as writing resources. A good place to start is the Purdue On-Line Writing Lab.