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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. Dumb idea by Kittenman · · Score: 0, Redundant
    IMHO. There are a range of spoken languages out there. Each one is best used by it's adherents and some devotees who usually speak another language, but chose the second language to make the point better. The French Voila, for example, has no English equivalent. I know a few other examples in Italian, and doubtless there are others in any other language you care to name.

    For computer languages, everyone has their own favourite - we just need a way to get one to talk to the other without any confusion. OO was the solution for this.

    This seems to be a solution for a problem that doesn't exist.

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