Stumbled across the Rosetta Code site this morning. I can’t remember when I last discovered a site so unbelievably useful; especially for people like me who occasionally dip into languages and then don’t use them again for a long time.
http://rosettacode.org/
Rosetta Code is a programming chrestomathy site. The idea is to present solutions to the same task in as many different languages as possible, to demonstrate how languages are similar and different, and to aid a person with a grounding in one approach to a problem in learning another. Rosetta Code currently has 504 tasks, and is aware of 384 languages, though we do not (and cannot) have solutions to every task in every language.
A very good example from the site:
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Reverse_a_string
I don’t know why I haven’t come across this before.. but sometimes you just don’t realise until you realise. I have a lot of data to take care of and space is always at a premium. I spend a decent amount of time looking for places to save space and better organise data. Well, when you deal with as much data as I do, you are almost certainly going to find yourself with duplicate copies of data in different places that you have forgotten about or never realised were duplicates in the first place.
fdupes to the rescue!
fdupes is a reasonably efficient program for checking directories for duplicate files based on checksums – so it will tell you if there are two identical files even if they have different names. It’s available in the SlackBuilds repository and thoroughly useful. It’s also interesting to discover files you had no idea might be duplicates all over the place.
Recent Comments