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Neat but Rosetta Code has been doing this for a while, would have been nice to see more people contributing in once spot http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Hello_
by petee 4y ago
Neat but Rosetta Code has been doing this for a while, would have been nice to see more people contributing in once spot
http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Hello_world/Text http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Hello_world/Text
- jimkleiber 4y agoWow, I had no idea Rosetta Code existed and as someone who loves linguistics (and can struggle knowing how to convert one computer language to another), I think I may find this really handy. Thank you!
- ravenstine 4y agoRosetta Code is useful, but many of the examples are horrendous. It's most likely because an example from one language is extrapolated into others without always considering if that language or community has its own way of accomplishing something. Occasionally I still use it, and it's good when you're a junior, but I think devs should try to move beyond it.
- lolinder 4y agoBetter yet, maybe devs who know a language well should correct the examples to be more idiomatic? It is a wiki, after all.
- ravenstine 4y agoYes.
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- AtlasBarfed 4y agoTHere was also PLEAC. And the other issue is the more than one way thing, you need "flavors" of different languages. And once you get past that, what is really needed is a standard reference implementation of a website, IO pipelines, network code, ssh libs, and tons of other things. Rosetta has a lot of crappy algorithms and paper-thin examples. It's a good idea, but I think Stack Overflow could have implemented something far better, at least for the main languages they had armies of karma seekers for.