https://github.com/ibara/polyglot-cat

The Unix cat utility in many different languages. A teaching exercise.
https://github.com/ibara/polyglot-cat

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The Unix cat utility in many different languages. A teaching exercise.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ibara/polyglot-cat
• Owner: ibara
• License: other
• Created: 2015-04-20T01:47:15.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-01-06T18:45:02.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-18T02:17:59.307Z (12 months ago)
• Language: F#
• Size: 11.7 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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cat

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The Unix cat utility in many different languages. A teaching exercise.

Why?

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Hello World is the traditional first program that is written by budding

programmers. However, the program isn't very useful. And it's not supposed to

be.

cat is probably one of the easier utilities to understand and write that is

actually used. Additionally, it is sufficiently complex enough to have multiple

ways of writing it within any particular language, allowing the new programmer

to impart his or her own developing style to the code. Finally, cat has special

conditions that require a little extra thought. A programmer could choose to

omit the code for handling stdin for a simplified program, for example.

The aspiring programmer will have a program he or she will use on a regular

basis. That feeling of using what you make hopefully provides encouragement to

continue learning to program.

Get involved

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Want to help herd cats? Write your own version of cat. Any language will do! In

fact, multiple examples of each language is good for demonstrating different

styles.

License

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Each implementation has its own license header. See LICENSE for a maintained

list.