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Rosetta Code is a wiki that aspires to do for programming languages what the Rosetta Stone did for Egyptian hieroglyphics. The concept was inspired by [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/List_of_hello_world_programs this list], and the realization that "Hello World", on its own, tells a new programmer very little about the language they're using. |
Rosetta Code is a wiki that aspires to do for programming languages what the Rosetta Stone did for Egyptian hieroglyphics. The concept was inspired by [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/List_of_hello_world_programs this list of "Hello, World" programs], and the realization that "Hello World", on its own, tells a new programmer very little about the language they're using. |
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Rosetta Code is a wiki that aspires to do for programming languages what the Rosetta Stone did for Egyptian hieroglyphics. The concept was inspired by this list of "Hello, World" programs, and the realization that "Hello World", on its own, tells a new programmer very little about the language they're using.