Polyglot – a program in eight languages (COBOL, Pascal, Fortran, C, PostScript, Linux/Unix shell script, X86 machine language and Perl); Obfuscated Programming – 6 language Polyglot (C, Shell ...

If your software development experience comes from the old-style world of compiled languages, such as C++ or COBOL, you may be a little mystified by the new generations of scripting or dynamic ...

Although all the scripting languages are similar, they do have differences in aesthetics and feel, says David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Ruby-based Ruby on Rails Web framework.