Silent film star [Lon Chaney] had the nickname “man of a thousand faces.” The Try It Out website (tio.run) might well be the site of a hundred languages. Well, in all fairness, they only have 97 “practical” languages, but they do have 172 “recreational languages” but the site of 269 languages doesn’t trip off the tongue, does it?
The site lets you run some code in each of those languages from inside your browser.By the site’s definition, practical languages include things like C, Java, Python, and Perl. There’s also old school stuff like FOCAL-69, Fortran, Algol, and APL. There’s several flavors of assembly and plenty of other choices. On the recreational side, you can find Numberwang, LOLCODE, and quite a few we’ve never heard of.
The site is interesting if you are wanting to compare languages or try out a snippet of code you found online. For practical use, it probably isn’t going to help you much. Some languages lend themselves better than…
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