From: Michael Neumann <neumann@...>
Date: 2001-04-23T18:02:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14067] Re: Rosetta Code

Marko Schulz wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 03:44:46PM +0900, Eric Bennett wrote:
> > 
> > Speaking of which, is there a "Rosetta Stone" which has example code
> > written in several languages?  Ruby / Perl / Python / Smalltalk / C / C++
> > / Java / etc...  This would go a long way to hush the religous fights
> > about clarity - by showing each language at it's best.
> 
> It would be hard to choose code which doesn't benifit a language too
> much, yet still shows the strengths of each one. 
> 
> The code which got implemented in most languages is probably the one
> printing 'Hello World'. You find examples for a lot languages on
> http://www.latech.edu/~acm/HelloWorld.shtml (not including ruby yet)
> or http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?HelloWorld (less, but including ruby).

I have a similar page with more than 100 languages (without dialects).
There is often more than one example in each language, so you can compare 
"better" than if you see only a "Hello World" program. 

Further examples are always welcome!


Regards

Michael


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