On “Ask Slashdot” the readers recently got to answer which their favourite programming reference sites where for different languages. While most of the gems that where posted are quite well known I thought I’d make a quick summery of all the valuable links posted there.
Most languages have recieved at least one link but it’s interesting to see some obscure languages in there while others are not even listed (Visual Basic? educational languages like SmallTalk? and at the time of this writing no reference to either MSDN or Google Code). It’s a good group of links though, many informative pages here for anyone who uses these languages.
These are all the sites that programmers recommended (who else visits slashdot?) in alphabetical order.
Algol
http://www.algol68.org/
C
http://cprogramming.com/
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/webmonkeys/book/c_guide/
http://www.devshed.com/
C++
http://www.cplusplus.com/
http://www.devshed.com/
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/
http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/
CSS
http://w3schools.com/css/default.asp
FORTH
http://www.phact.org/e/forth.htm
HTML
http://w3schools.com/html/default.asp
Java
http://java.sun.com/
http://java.sun.com/javase/reference/api.jsp
JavaScript
http://developer.mozilla.org/
http://w3schools.com/js/default.asp
Logo
http://el.media.mit.edu/Logo-foundation/logo/programming.html
LUA
http://lua-users.org/wiki/
http://www.lua.org/
http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/
Lucid
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Lucid
Pascal
http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/ref.html
Perl
http://cpan.org/
http://use.perl.org/
http://www.perl.com/
http://www.perlmonks.org/
PHP
http://php.net/
PL/I
http://www.users.bigpond.com/robin_v/resource.htm
Prolog
http://www.logic.at/prolog/faq/faq.html
Ruby
http://ruby-doc.org/core/
http://api.rubyonrails.org/
Python
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/python/
http://python.org/
Scheme (LISP)
http://srfi.schemers.org/
http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/
SNOBOL
http://www.snobol4.org/
TCL
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Tcl
http://tcl.tk/
Multilanguage
http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki
http://www.gotapi.com/html
http://www.quickref.org/
http://www.regular-expressions.info/
http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Main_Page
Not purely programming but related
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unmainprinciples.html
http://www.google.com/ (!)
Not mentioned links, added by me
Google Code
Visual Basic
SmallTalk
MSDN