Scripting
2006-05-01 Filed in: scripting
Here is
some
source code in a blog
entry about decoding "tar" archive headers, which IMO
is a good example of how different languages have
their own way of expressing logic (Ruby in this
case).
Wouldn't it be nice if there were a place where the same problem, preferably a simple-to-understand-but-not-quite-trivial-one-to-solve, were coded in different languages and all collected somewhere?
Not as a shoot-out, but to help understand just what the different styles, formatting choices, standard libraries, and conventions are. Hey, let's call it a "sleep-in", to protest against language apartheid!
I'd really like this world to move on from "mono-lingual" language-centric communities ...
Wouldn't it be nice if there were a place where the same problem, preferably a simple-to-understand-but-not-quite-trivial-one-to-solve, were coded in different languages and all collected somewhere?
Not as a shoot-out, but to help understand just what the different styles, formatting choices, standard libraries, and conventions are. Hey, let's call it a "sleep-in", to protest against language apartheid!
I'd really like this world to move on from "mono-lingual" language-centric communities ...