Comments on: Rosetta Code

Rosetta Code

Deathalicious — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:09:46 -0800

"Rosetta Code is a programming chrestomathy site." Each page describes a programming concept or task, then lists how it's implemented in dozens of programming languages. Useful for learning a new programming language, especially if you're already familiar with how to do it in another language.

By: xorry

xorry — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:41:54 -0800

Too bad there aren't examples in Chef

By: James Scott-Brown

James Scott-Brown — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:44:10 -0800

See also the Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook, the Algorithm Implementation Wikbook, Hyperpolyglot, and the rather more limited 99 bottles of beer.

By: monospace

monospace — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:44:24 -0800

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Hello_world/Text#Chef

By: Fizz

Fizz — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:01:32 -0800

And for just 5 easy payments of $19.99 you can learn how to speak French, Spanish, German, and more.

By: TreeRooster

TreeRooster — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:21:50 -0800

Sad that it has so little LISP, but the one nontrivial entry is a "Quine." I had never heard of that, but now I know the full etymology of the "porpuquine," 10+ years after my AI professor introduced us to the beast. That's the sign of a good prof, when they manage to keep teaching you more than a decade later.

By: maryr

maryr — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:48:49 -0800

"Rosetta Code is a programming chrestomathy site." Chrestomanci? Oh! So sorry to bother you, sir! That is a *fabulous* dressing gown, though.

By: zardoz

zardoz — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:51:09 -0800

Very cool. I'm a programming n00b and can barely write "hello, world", so seeing these different examples, even just in Python, which I'm trying to learn, is really helpful. Tutorials get boring quick without some practical application of the skills.

By: sammyo

sammyo — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:01:05 -0800

Last time I looked some examples in some languages were far from idiomatic. But as a rough check it's pretty cool. You'd think the lispers would go to town on this kind of site, perhaps though it would show that for something like a file read it would require a different entry for every version (and sometimes dot rev)... ;-) But look at Clojure, it's and up and coming lisp and seems to be well represented.

By: eruonna

eruonna — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:04:00 -0800

You know what language I always want to see on this kind of thing? Metafont. Well, how about that?

By: Nelson

Nelson — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:04:12 -0800

I like the concept, but execution is maybe not ideal. The examples for looping over arrays in Python and Javascript here and here are not great descriptions. Also the code is confusing because there's no standard; they keep looping over different examples in different languages, etc. No big surprise, looping over arrays is surprisingly tricky in many programming languages (particularly Javascript), but I worry that people learning languages from this site may learn them the wrong way.

By: symbioid

symbioid — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:57:33 -0800

So, I made a shirt a few years ago "Your Favorite Programming Language Sucks". The front of the shirt just says the aforementioned, and on the back is a bunch of output statements from various program languages outputting that phrase.

By: scruss

scruss — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:26:50 -0800

That site has just introduced me to WPS: PostScript for the Web (a PS interpreter in JavaScript for HTML5 Canvas), which will now be my favourite thing ever for the next half hour.

By: wanderingstan

wanderingstan — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:51:07 -0800

Too bad there aren't examples in Chef. Ahem..