Polyglot (computing) that use different characters for comments and to redefine various tokens as others in different languages. Often good use is made of syntax quirks. These are demonstrated in this public domain polyglot written in ANSI C, PHP and bash: Note the following: Some less-common languages also offer possibilities to create Polyglot code. Here is a small sample, written simultaneously in SNOBOL4, Win32Forth, PureBasicv4.x, and REBOL: The term is sometimes applied to programs that are valid in more than one language, but do not strictly perform the same function in each. One use for this form is a file that runs
Polyglot (webzine) date was Polyglot Volume #3 Issue #9 at 65 pages. "Polyglot" has grown over its history from a 3-page PDF of all text to as large as 65 pages with over 50 press releases and as many as 91 images in Volume #3 Issue #9; the PDF's file size ranges was 5.3 megabytes. More than 100 companies (see below) have sent material to Polyglot over the course of the webzine's first 55 issues. Stephen V Cole of Starfleet Games identified Polyglot as one of the "People Who Will Contact You" in his online book about how to run a game