The Programming Page

While being a compuer scientist or software engineer is much more than just programming, I believe that good programming skills are a must, even if (maybe) we do not program (anymore) in our jobs.

A general overview about the various existing programming languages can be found in the language list which is maintained at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.

Locally available information:

Ada 95; with free sources
C; with some comments on the new C standard

Standards

Some programming languages are standardized. Usually, such standards are either developed in the first place by ISO, or are later adopted by them. This is somewhat unfortunate, because ISO doesn't give their standards away for free. In fact, you have to pay rather dearly to get a copy of a standard. So don't go searching the web for standards, you won't find much. Some things that are available are the following:

ANSI-C Rationale, a document explaining the choices made in the former ANSI (now ISO) standard for C. (This document is not part of the ISO standard, which is why it is available on the web.)
The ISO/ANSI standard for C is not available on-line. But a summary of the "Technical Corrigendum 1", which corrected and clarified the standard, is available. And so is a summary of "Technical Corrigendum 2".
C has been revised extensively in the late nineteen-nineties. For information on this new standard, see my special page.
The Ada 95 Reference Manual and the Ada 95 Rationale. These two are publicly available because the copyright is not ISO's.
A draft of the C++ standard also exists. (But note that this is not the final standard! That one must be bought from ISO.)
The ISO standard on language-independent arithmetic.
The IEEE standard for binary floating-point arithmetic (ANSI/IEEE Std 754-1985) is not available in electronic form, but at least it was published as ACM SIGPLAN Notices 22(2), pp. 9-25, Feb. 1987.

Finally, ISO standards can be ordered!