Ask HN: Beyond Hello World in multiple languages?

1 points by chrisBob 5y ago ↗ HN

I work in a lot of different languages on a regular basis, and it can be hard to keep track of some of the syntax between Python, MATLAB, Swift, JS, R, C++, ...

Does anyone have a good resource for "Hello World" type examples in multiple languages that go a little beyond `print("hello world");`?

I would be happy to start with code that at least includes a function definition and a for loop, but my eventual goal would be to fill about 1 page of code in each language with the most common actions.

Does something like this exist? I don't want to recreate it if someone can point me to a good existing project.

Thanks!

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cratermoon 5y ago ↗

What you want is http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code

chrisBob 5y ago ↗

This looks like the best starting point for me so far. The fact that they are real, useful programs means that I would need to cut a bunch for any of the examples I looked at so far, but I like it as a starting point.

compressedgas 5y ago ↗

You might be interested in https://hyperpolyglot.org/

chrisBob 5y ago ↗

That is interesting and certainly has all of the pieces I am looking for. This project isn't anywhere near what I want for a final result, but would make the pieces easy to find as I am putting it together.

elyseum 5y ago ↗

Maybe not a starting point because it’s too advanced, but Make A Lisp has example implementations for +80 languages now: https://github.com/kanaka/mal

chrisBob 5y ago ↗

That is an interesting advanced project, but it is hard to find a consistent 1-page section in all of the languages.