One possible way of describing languages

gistfile1.py

languages = {
    "C": {
        'main_file': "{bot}.c",
        'nuke_globs': ["*.o", "{bot}"],
        'compile': [
            System("gcc -O3 -c {file}", glob="*.c"),
            System("gcc -O2 -lm -o {bot}", glob="*.o"),
        ],
        'run': "./{bot}",
    },
    
    "C#": {
        'main_file': "{bot}.cs",
        'nuke_globs': ["{bot}.exe"],
        'compile': System("gmcs -warn:0 -out:{bot}.exe", glob="*.cs"),
        'run': "mono ./{bot}.exe",
    },
    
    "C++": {
        'main_file': ["{bot}.cc", "{bot}.cpp", "{bot}.cxx"],
        'nuke_globs': ["*.o", "{bot}"],
        'compile': [
            System("g++ -O3 -c {file}", glob=["*.c","*.cc","*.cpp","*.cxx"]),
            System("g++ -O2 -lm -o {bot}"),
        ],
        'run': "./{bot}",
    },
    
    "Clojure": {
        'main_file': "{bot}.clj",
        'run': "clojure {bot}.clj",
    },
    
    "CoffeeScript": {
        'main_file': "{bot}.coffee",
        'run': "coffee {bot}.coffee",
    },
    
    "Go": {
        'main_file': "{bot}.go",
        'nuke_globs': ["*.8", "{bot}"],
        'compile': [
            System("8g -o _go_.8", glob="*.go"),
            System("8l -o {bot} _go_.8"),
        ],
        'run': "./{bot}",
    },
    
    "Groovy": {
        'main_file': "{bot}.groovy",
        'nuke_globs': ["*.class", "*.jar"],
        'compile': [
            System("groovyc", glob="*.groovy"),
            System("jar cfe {bot}.jar {bot}"),
        ],
        'run': "java -cp {bot}.jar:/usr/share/groovy/"
               "embeddable/groovy-all-1.7.0.jar {bot}",
    },
    
    "Haskell": {
        'main_file': "{bot}.hs",
        'nuke_globs': ["{bot}"],
        'compile': System("ghc --make {bot}.hs -O2 -v0"),
        'run': "./{bot}.hs",
    },
    
    "Java": {
        'main_file': "{bot}.java",
        'nuke_globs': ["*.class", "*.jar"],
        'compile': [
            System("javac", deepglob="*.class"),
            System("jar cfe {bot}.jar {bot}"),
        ],
        'run': "java -jar {bot}.jar",
    },
    
    "JavaScript": {
        'main_file': "{bot}.js",
        'run': "node {bot}.js",
    },
    
    "Lisp": {
        'main_file': "{bot}.lisp",
        'nuke_globs': ["{bot}"],
        'compile':
            System("sbcl --end-runtime-options --no-sysinit --no-userinit "
                   "--disable-debugger --load {bot}.lisp --eval "
                   "(save-lisp-and-die \"{bot}\" :executable t :toplevel "
                   "#'bot::main)"),
        'run': "./bot",
    },
    
    "Lua": {
        'main_file': "{bot}.lua",
        'run': "lua {bot}.lua",
    },
    
    "OCaml": {
        'main_file': "{bot}.ml",
        'nuke_globs': ["{bot}native"],
        'compile': System("ocamlbuild {bot}.native"),
        'run': "./{bot}.native",
    },
    
    "Perl": {
        'main_file': "{bot}.pl",
        'run': "perl {bot}.pl",
    },
    
    "PHP": {
        'main_file': "{bot}.php",
        'run': "php {bot}.php",
    },
    
    "Python": {
        'main_file': "{bot}.py",
        'nuke_globs': ["*.pyc"],
        'run': "python {bot}.py",
    },
    
    "Ruby": {
        'main_file': "{bot}.rb",
        'run': "ruby {bot}.rb",
    },
    
    "Scala": {
        'main_file': "{bot}.scala",
        'nuke_globs': ["*.class", "*.jar"],
        'compile': System("scalac", glob="*.scala"),
        'run': "scala {bot}"
    },
}