Talk:List of open-source programming languages
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Should Pascal be included?
[edit]I am not knowledgeable about those licenses; searching for "pascal open source license" I get "Free Pascal" 2403:6200:88A0:E7B9:FC28:5D03:7C64:B51C (talk) 11:12, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
What is an "open-source programming language" here?
[edit]Is it a programming language for which there's an open-source implementation, or is it a language for which no copyrights restrict implementation of the language? Guy Harris (talk) 10:08, 18 February 2026 (UTC)
- Good question. I've been interpreting it as "a language for which there's a (at least one) open-source implementation". Sprhodes (talk) 03:54, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
I've been interpreting it as "a language for which there's a (at least one) open-source implementation".
So that means that, given the existence of the GNU Compiler Collection, C, C++, Objective-C, Objective-C++, COBOL, and Modula-2 are open-source programming languages (assuming that an open-source runtime library is available), and, given the existence of GCC-based compilers, Fortran and Algol 68 may also be open-source programming languages.- However, several of those languages aren't listed. There's an entry for "GNU Fortran" and "GnuCOBOL", but that seems to be discussing specific implementations, not languages. Yes, there may be GNU extensions to those languages, but presumably programs written to whatever standards for those languages the compiler and run-time library implement are supported. And, for Fortran, there's also flang, from the LLVM project.
- So I think there should be a definition of "open-source programming language" given in the first couple of paragraphs of the article. Guy Harris (talk) 08:53, 11 September 2026 (UTC)
Why are there no pages for Odin and Terra?
[edit]Was wondering why these two programming languages have no Wikipedia pages. It strikes me as unusual that actual joke languages like Befunge have a page but Odin and Terra have none? ~2026-44438-02 (talk) 15:25, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
Was wondering why these two programming languages have no Wikipedia pages.
Because nobody's bothered to write a page for them. Guy Harris (talk) 08:42, 11 September 2026 (UTC)