Programming Languages? Which One?

Of course, as any curios person, I am very interested in knowing what it is the evolution of the programming languages and of their features. So, I have collected some links to compare them:

• Let start with an alphabetical list of programming languages, provided by Wikipedia, just to discover that, out there, there are more than a thousand programming languages. Indeed, Bill Kinnersley maintains a list of about 2500 entries.
  


• A Wikibook can help us to see how a simple example like the Hello World can be implemented with different programming languages.
  


• The general comparisons presented on Wikipedia helps to understand some differences between most used programming languages.
  


• The Scriptometer tries to measure whether a programming language can be easily used for SOP (Script-Oriented Programming).
  


• This page describes the verbosity vs speed trade-offs of C++, Java, OCaml, SML Common Lisp and Scheme as measured by the ray tracer implementations.
  


• 99 Bottles of Beer goes even forther by evaluating 1071 different programming languages!!!
  


• This page compares the syntax of various programming languages.
  


• Let's have a look also to some esoteric programming languages


• Finally, this page allows to compare the performances/characteristics of various programming languages by manipulating multipliers and weights.
  

Let's say that knowing a little bit of C++, Java, C# and Python I really would like to investigate more lunguages such as OCaml, Ruby and D.