Coming back to blogging after a looong time :) I’ve never blogged much in the past actually, but now trying to share some of the technical stuffs that I come across. I always had a thought when I was a student that scripting languages aren’t powerful and not widely used in professional level programming. Even while I was doing my Masters, we weren’t encouraged to write programs in scripting languages like python, ruby, and perl. We have to strictly pick C, C++, Java and such common languages where we have to write more code as there aren’t some built-in functions compared to scripting languages.

Few weeks ago, I got interest in learning some of the scripting languages. Started with Python, I slowly learned some of the concepts in other scripting languages like Ruby and Perl. Scripting languages are really powerful and makes the job easier when it comes to Systems Programming. In Google, most of the system level code is written in Python. The inventor is Python works at Google. Even though all scripting languages are similar, it is sometime hard to remember some functionality across these scripting languages. After I started reading about Ruby, I felt like I forgot some concepts from Python. I googled and came across this awesome cookbook, PLEAC – Programming Lanugage Examples Alike Cookbook. Although it is not 100% complete, it has plenty of information to study scripting languages with comparison.

PLEAC, of sourceforge, started by following the Perl Cookbook (by Tom Christiansen & Nathan Torkington, published by O’Reilly; you can freely browse an excerpt of the book here). The Perl Cookbook showcases some of the common programming problems solved by the Perl programming language. PLEAC implements these problems in all other possible scripting languages.

Access PLEAC here: http://pleac.sourceforge.net

I think the above page has more information that I can give here. Will be back with some other article.