Best Reference Site For Each Programming Language?

Howling writes "I've been a PHP programmer for a few years and after taking a trip through many sites Ive learned that www.php.net is probably the most complete source when looking for information/documentation. I have been trying to find similar sites for every other language (Java, perl or ASP, for instance) without equal success, though. I ask: what is the best documentation/reference site for your preferred programming language?"

Comments

Scheme

[klutometis]

If it's scheme you're looking for, there's R5RS and the SRFIs; also, don't forget the world's possibly best-written programming book: SICP.

Re:Perl and Python

[Praedon]

Yep, those are good too.. but I'd also add something that was basically born from Slashdot, it's Rosetta Code For common solutions with multiple code for different programming environments.

Re:Perl and Python

[mangu]

The funny thing is that for some 20 years, before I started using Python, my favorite and almost only language was C, and I don't know of any really good site for C.

However, I do know of a really good author, that is a "dead tree" author, for C: Herbert Schildt. I would recommend these. Any of them. Well, just kidding, I haven't read them all, I doubt anyone has, but I bet they are all good.

My favorite is his book on artificial intelligence. It's out of print now, but it was one of the reasons why C was my favorite language for about 20 years, and it still would be if Python hadn't come out.

Most popular languages are at Wikibooks

[Orion Blastar]

Wikibooks because if it isn't already there, someone will eventually write one and make it open sourced.

I invite Slashdot readers and posters to write their own ebooks at Wikibooks in an open source license.

scissors beats paper, paper beats the internet

[OrangeTide]

I think you misinterpreted the tongue-in-cheek language.

I don't know the reason why some languages (like C) have little online presence. There is comp.lang.c on usenet and the comp.lang.c FAQ. And a couple of online versions of man pages, but it's hard to learn C from man pages alone. And there is the C89/C99 specs, but I don't think that's a great way to learn C either. If you ignore usenet (most people do), I would venture to say there is basically nothing good about C online.

Compared to the books you can get that cover C programming, ones on algorithms, data structures, C itself, and various APIs. The web seems vastly inferior. I'm not trying to claim I know the reason why, I'm just pointing out that this is currently the case. Currently paper is better than electrons for SOME languages.