Polyglot (computing) Polyglot (computing) In computing, a polyglot is a computer program or script written in a valid form of multiple programming languages, which performs the same operations or output independent of the programming language used to compile or interpret it. Generally polyglots are written in a combination of C (which allows redefinition of tokens with a preprocessor) and a scripting language such as Lisp, Perl or sh. Polyglot markup is similar, but about markup language context. Polyglot persistence is similar, but about databases. The two most commonly used techniques for constructing a polyglot program are to make liberal use of languages
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