[Techtalk] Ruby/Perl Tutorials

[Little Girl]

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.