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Building a Programmer's Rosetta Stone

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-waiting-for-programmer's-tower-of-babel dept.

Did you ever run into the problem where you knew how to do something in one programming language, but really needed to do it in another? That's what Rosetta Code is all about. A variety of programming tasks are solved using as many languages as possible. You can examine existing tasks, or create your own.

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  1. One task that isn't on there by antifoidulus · · Score: 4, Funny

    "How to bring a hooker back to life" Damn, I really neede....I mean, was interested in how you would do it in Perl, for curiosity's sake....

    --
    Monstar L
    1. Re:One task that isn't on there by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      use Hooker::Transactional;

      Hooker::Transactional->get_last->rollback;

      Dude, CPAN has EVERYTHING! :)

  2. Will they support these programming styles ?!? by ctrl-alt-canc · · Score: 3, Funny

    http://jody140.dsl.frii.net/SWE/ProgEvol

  3. Re:No Fair! by frakir · · Score: 5, Funny

    I program in Malbolge, you insensitive clod!
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge_programming_ language

    I hope next windows ver will be coded in Malbolge and open source.