Rosetta Code
Rosetta Code is a wiki-based programming chrestomathy website with implementations of common algorithms and solutions to various programming problems in many different programming languages.[1] It was created in 2007 by Mike Mol.
As of 11 July 2018[update], Rosetta Code has:[2]
- 881 programming tasks (or problems),
- 221 additional draft programming tasks,
- 674 programming languages,
- 58,700 programming language examples/entries.
The site's content is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2, though some components may be dual-licensed under more permissive terms.[3]
The Rosetta Code web repository illustrates how desired functionality is implemented very differently in various programming paradigms, [4][5] and how "the same" task is accomplished in different programming languages.[6]
Contents
Data and structure[edit]
The Rosetta Code site is organized as a browsable cross-section of tasks (specific programming problems or considerations) and computer programming languages. A task's page displays visitor-contributed solutions in various computer languages, allowing a viewer to compare each language's approach to the task's stated problem. Task pages are included in per-language listings based on the languages of provided solutions; a task with a solution in the C programming language will appear in the listing for C. If the same task has a solution in Ruby, the task will appear in the listing for Ruby as well.
Selection of languages[edit]
The following represents a small sample of the over 650 computer programming languages found on Rosetta Code:[7]
- Ada
- AutoHotKey
- BBC Basic (there are over 35 different variants of BASIC)
- C
- C#
- C++
- COBOL
- D
- Fortran
- Go
- Haskell
- J
- Java
- Kotlin
- Mathematica
- Perl and Perl 6
- Picolisp
- PL/I
- PureBasic
- Python
- Racket
- REXX
- Ruby
- SequenceL
- Tcl
(To see a complete list of computer programming languages that have examples (solutions to the Rosetta Code tasks), see: Rosetta Code computer programming language popularity list.
Selection of tasks[edit]
The following represents a sample of the tasks found on Rosetta Code:[8]
- Ackermann function
- Anagrams
- Bitwise operations
- Comments
- Empty program
- Factorial
- Fibonacci sequence
- Function definition
- FizzBuzz
- Hello world/Text
- Infinity
- Random numbers
- Rot13
- sorting algorithms
- 99 Bottles of Beer
- 100 doors
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Ralf Lämmel. "Software chrestomathies". doi:10.1016/j.scico.2013.11.014. 2013.
- ^ "Welcome to Rosetta Code". Retrieved 2018-07-11.
- ^ "Rosetta Code:Copyrights". Retrieved 2010-12-19.
- ^ Neil Walkinshaw. Chapter One: "Reverse-Engineering Software Behavior". "Advances in Computers". 2013. p. 14.
- ^ Geoff Cox. "Speaking Code: Coding as Aesthetic and Political Expression". MIT Press, 2013. p. 6.
- ^ Nick Montfort "No Code: Null Programs". 2013. p. 10.
- ^ "Most linked-to categories". Retrieved 2016-04-10.
- ^ "Pages with the most categories". Retrieved 2011-07-18.
