From: Gary Taylor <gt@...>
Date: 2001-04-23T19:09:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14070] 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.
>

Take a look at
http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~prechelt/Biblio/jccpprt_computer2000.ps.gz

It contains an empirical comparison of C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Rexx and
Tcl.
It looks not only at runtime properties, but also code-writing productivity
etc..

Maybe someone can add Ruby to that list.

Gary.