Category talk:Programming Languages: Difference between revisions

:::::I think BASIC has the same kind of thing going on. We need to work to distinguish dialects from implementations (if we want a distinction) if we want this to work. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 19:17, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

::::: '''works with''' is particularly unsatisfactory to me because it provides information about a programming example without an effective way to organize that information in navigable categories. With separate dialect and implementation templates, the dialect category can be made a subcategory of the parent language, while at the same time being listed as supported by particular implementations. In this sense, one can identify C++98 as a dialect of C++, and identify which C++ implementations support the C++98 dialect. An implementation's nonstandard extensions or definition of a standard's undefined behavior (i.e. gcc C and C++ language extensions, or a Brainfuck compiler's particular interpretation of BF's rather loose standard) would count as their own dialect. (It's notable that such dialects don't necessarily have only one implementation; ActiveState Perl and the official Perl distribution, for example, both implement the same dialect of the language, as far as I'm aware.) --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 22:09, 28 April 2009 (UTC)