[Techtalk] Ruby/Perl Tutorials
Little Girl
littlergirl at gmail.com
Thu Apr 22 14:17:05 UTC 2010
Hey there,
Mike wrote:
> One of the standards is to write a hello world program
> this site is a collection of such programs in a 428 different
> languages
> http://www.roesler-ac.de/wolfram/hello.htm
Oh my goodness, I had no idea there were so many languages out
there! It would take a few lifetimes to learn them all!
> Read through the list and see how this simple task is done in each
> language then install the ones you find interesting.
This is definitely a great idea. I can see immediately that some of
them wouldn't interest me and others are intriguing because of their
sheer simplicity.
> I once wrote an assignment in APL rather than pascal. It was 10
> lines long, 7 of those were comments. The pascal program was at
> least a thousands times longer.
LOL! What did the Pascal program *do* for those thousands of lines?
--
Little Girl
There is no spoon.
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