Programming Languages: A Primer

• Hearken now, gentle scholars, and attend unto these scrolls of knowledge, wherein the tongues of programming are laid bare.

Of Programming Languages: A Primer

• In sooth, many are the tongues of code, each forged for a purpose specific, and in its own manner, each doth shine.
• To choose aright the tongue for thy task shall save thee much toil and tribulation.
• Languages be twofold in nature: low-level and high-level.

Low-Level Tongues

• These tongues speak nigh unto the machine's heart, direct to the iron and wire.
• Assembly Language is the root of these tongues, where each line doth command a deed of hardware, moving data betwixt registers and counting sums.
• C is a step upward, yet still close to the machine, as a mother is to her babe. Swift it is, and strong, used in the engines that drive the world, and in software of great import.

High-Level Tongues

• These tongues speak in words that Man may read, yet must they be rendered by layers unknown into the machine's parlance, which may slow their measure.
• Java is one such, a tongue of the object, crafted to run upon any engine with a Java Virtual Machine.
• Python is a tongue easily learned, with a clean speech, yet strong it is, and used in the weaving of the web, the delving of data, and the crafting of minds artificial.
• Javascript is the tongue of the web itself, making websites interactive, handling clicks and shows of moving forms.
• Ruby is a tongue pleasing to read, known for its Ruby on Rails, a frame for building websites with speed.
• PHP is a scripting tongue used for the web's forge, powering WordPress and many sites besides, for building websites that shift and change.
• C# is a tongue crafted by Microsoft, for Windows and games as well, akin to Java but rooted in Windows' garden.
• Swift is the tongue of Apple, for iPhones and Macs, modern and swift, easy to speak.
• Kotlin ascends in Android's realm, a tongue concise and interoperable with Java's ways.
• Go, or Golang, by Google wrought, is swift and simple, for servers and clouds, handling tasks that run at once.
• Rust is prized for its safety, akin to C++ but guarding against memory's failings, favored where security is key.
• Pearl, once the Swiss Army blade in days of yore, still works for web weaving and managing systems.
• SQL, or structured query language is for speaking with databases, storing and fetching secrets within tables of data.
• MatLab is the tongue for scientists to use when reckoning maths and studying data's breadth.
• Lua is a tongue light and fitted for games, to bind with the source code and offer simple command.
• Hascal is a tongue all functions, for scholars of data and puzzles of numbers.
• Typescript is akin to JavaScript, yet stronger, catching errors early and building apps with might.
• Dart, from the forge of Google, shapes Flutter's frame, building swift apps for both sides, iOS, and Android.
• Scalar blends objects and functions, heavy data processing.
• Elixir is known for its ability to grow and handle errors, building systems of high concurrency.
• F#, for the .NET platform is an elegant and succinct syntax for Financial and Scientific computing.
• Bash, or Born Again Shell, scripts to command Unix systems, to quicken tasks that oft are trod.
• R is a tongue that can compute statistics and produce fancy visualizations.
• Cobal is a tongue for business, for finance and management, in banking and offices, where legacies remain.
• Fortron, Formula Translator, still lives in the sphere of scientific computing
• Pascal, for instruction created to teach the students of structured programming
• Lisp, old tongue of symbols, is for artificial minds.
• Prologue is for logic, to solve with rules and matchings of patterns.
• Objective-C was the main tongue of Apple, now fading to Swift's new dawn.
• Simula, the first tongue of object.
• Smalltalk shaped object-oriented ways as we know them
• APL weaves arrays with power.
• Fourth controls hardware.

• Go forth now, and choose thy tongue with wisdom, and may thy code be free of err