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			Compilation-only languages					Shell Scripts			Exotic languages		Functional Languages
				C	C++	Java	Ada		Unix sh	Perl	Python	Ruby		O'Caml	Haskell	Pure LISP		Common LISP				Scheme
																	librep		GNU CLISP	E-Lisp	Xemacs LISP		Guile	MzScheme
User Interface
	REPL		No					Yes			Yes	No		Yes	Hugs	Yes	No
		Customizable							No	No	U			Yes	Yes	No			Yes	No	No		Yes	Yes
		Available as a library							No	Yes	Yes			No	No	No			No	No	No		Yes	Yes
	GUI			IDE	IDE	IDE	IDE	No			Libraries	Libraries				No				Emacs	Xemacs			MrEd, DrScheme
		REPL-in-GUI	No								U	No		No	No		No		No	Yes	Yes		No	Yes
		Toolkit available in the language		Libraries	Libraries	Native	Libraries		No	Libraries	Libraries	Libraries		Yes	Yes/U		Libraries		Libraries	No	Yes		Libraries	Yes
		Customizable in the language (e.g. on-the-fly new widgets for new datatypes)		Libraries	Libraries	Libraries	Libraries		No	Libraries	Libraries	Libraries		Libraries	U		U		Libraries	No	Yes/U		Libraries	Yes
Language Features
	Typing		Yes					Yes(5)	No(6)	Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes	No	No/U	Yes				Yes
		Extensible		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes			Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes		U	Yes				Yes
		Extensible with foreign types		Common headers	Common headers	Dynamically	Abstract types			U	Yes	Yes		Abstract types	Abstract types and monads		U		Yes	No/U	Yes		Yes	Yes
		Dynamic	No							Yes	Yes	No		Yes	Yes		U	Yes				Yes
		Late (types at eval time)			(1)	(1)				Yes	No	No		No	No		U	Yes				Yes
		Higher-order functions		Yes(11)	Yes(11,13)	No	Yes(11)	No		(12)	Yes	Yes	Yes
	OOP			No(4)	Yes	Yes	Packages		No					Yes	No	No		CLOS		No	No		GOOPS (CLOS)	Java (22)
		Classes and objects, methods			Yes	Yes	Yes			Yes(7)	Yes	Yes		Yes
		Generic functions			Yes	No	Yes			No	U	No		No
		Multimethods			Yes(2)	No	U			No	No	No		No
		MOP			No	Yes(20)	No			No	No	No		No										No
	Libraries		Yes						No	Yes				Yes	Yes	No
		Standard Utilites		Rich	Complete	Complete	Complete			Complete	Rich	Rich		Rich	Rich			Complete				Complete
		Namespaces		No	Yes	No	U			U	Yes	U		No	No			No					Yes	Yes
		Modules		No	No(3)	Packages	Yes			Yes	Yes	U		Yes	Yes			Yes				Yes
	Extensibility		Yes
		Dynamic modules		dlopen	dlopen	Classes are dynamic	dlopen/U		No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes	U	No	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes
		Dynamic foreign modules		dlopen	dlopen	JNI	dlopen/U		No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes(16)	U	No	Yes/U		No	No	Yes		Yes	Yes
		FFI		Yes	Yes	JNI	Yes		Yes(8)	No	Yes	Yes		Yes(17)	Yes/U	No	Yes/U		Yes(23)	No	No		No	Yes(23)
		Evaluator available as a library	No						No	Yes	Yes	U		No	No	No	Yes		No	No	No		Yes	Yes
	Compilation		Yes						No		Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes	No							No
		To Bytecode		No	No	Yes	No			Yes	Yes	U		Yes	Yes/U				Yes	Yes	Yes			Yes
		To Native code		Yes	Yes	Yes(9)	Yes			No	No	U		Yes	Yes				U	No	No			Yes
		Special optimizations when compiling		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes			U	U	U		Yes	Yes				U	Yes	Yes			Yes
		Compilation time		Low	Huge	High	High			Low	Low	Low		Low	Medium				Low	Low	Low			Low
		Separate Compilation		Yes	Yes(21)	Yes	Package-level			Yes	U	U		Yes	Yes				Yes	Yes	Yes			Yes
		Compiled code run-time performace	High							Good	U	U		High	Good				Good	Good	Good			High
Extra Features
		Anonymous functions		No	Yes(14)	No	No		No	No	Yes	Yes/U	Yes
		Closures		No	No	No	No		No	Yes(15)	U	Yes/U	Yes			(18)	(18)	(18)	(18)	(18)	(18)
		Reflection		No	No	Yes	No		No	U	No	No		No	No	Yes
		Standard operator and function overloading		No	Yes	No	Yes(25)		Command aliases	No	Yes(24)	Yes		No	Yes	Yes
		Dynamic scoping		No	No	No	No		Yes	Yes	No	No		No	No	Yes						No
		Continuations		No(19)	No	No	No		No	No	No	U		No	No/U	No						Yes
		Exceptions		No	Yes	Yes	Yes		No	No	Yes(24)	Yes		Yes	No	No		Yes				Yes
Popularity Factor			Good	Max	Max	Good	Low	High	Max	Max	Good	Low	High	Good	Low	Max	Low	Max	High	Max	Max	High	Low	High
Seriousness Factor			High	Max	Max	High	Max	Low	Low	Good	Max	U	Max	High	High	Max	High	Max	High	High	High	High	High	High

(1) - Type anonymisers can be "emulated" with RTTI			(9) - Not universally supported					(17) - Wrappers needed				(24) - Yes for operators, but no general overloading
(2) - Through the Visitor design pattern			(11) - function pointers					(18) - Non-hygienic				(25) - except the assignment operator
(3) - Can be emulated with design conventions			(12) - can be emulated					(19) - Can be emulated with setjmp/longjmp
(4) - Can be emulated with design conventions			(13) - With function objects					(20) - When using reflection only
(5) - Most of the time			(14) - With static genericity and function objects					(21) - Unless using genericity
(6) - only character strings are supported			(15) - Rarely used feature					(22) - CLOS-like functionality with Meroon
(8) - command invocation			(16) - Recent, unstable					(23) - Non-standard