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
Who Knows Where the Time Goes? puts an LP record on a turntable and the song plays as Mark Rylance's character, Johnny Byron, dances with her and is then brutally beaten by the girl's stepfather and his brothers. The version used is the live recording from BBC Radio "Sounds of the Seventies", recorded September 11, 1973. The song was played in the BBC's "Inspector George Gently" episode "The Lost Child" set in 1968. In 2018 the Nina Simone cover version was used at the end of episode 3 of "Save Me" a Sky Television programme. Who Knows Where the Time Goes? "Who Knows Where the Time