Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

I recently started the CodeByExample project, which focusses on me putting online all my small code examples for various languages. The main idea here is to create a large repository of small, atomic, code examples for everyday things. For instance, there’s a little code snippet on how to daemonize (detach from the console and keep running in the background) a program in Python under Unix.

Just the other day, I ran into this project: PLEAC – Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook. From the website:

Following the great Perl Cookbook which presents a suite of common programming problems solved in the Perl language, this project aims to gather fans of programming, in order to implement the solutions in other programming languages.

If successful, this project may become a primary resource for quick, handy and free reference to solve most common programming problems using higher-level programming languages, and for comparison on ease-of-use and power/efficiency of these languages.

The goals of PLEAC and CodeByExample might seem the same, but they are somewhat different nonetheless. Where CodeByExample tries to focus on actual programming solutions that can be used to perform a certain task, PLEAC focusses more on basic programming language skills, such as reversing arrays, and algorithms in different languages.

It’s quite an interesting project and you should definitely check it out. Doesn’t seem to be progressing very quickly though.