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Polyglot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (182 words) |
 | A polyglot is a language that is a combination of other languages |
 | Polyglot may also refer to an amalgam of languages, such as those created when groups of people who speak different languages spend extended periods of time together. |
 | The term linguist is often mistakenly used to refer to a polyglot. |
| Polyglot (computing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (417 words) |
 | In the context of 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 independently of which of the chosen programming language in which it is compiled or interpreted. |
 | Intuition suggests that polyglot programs should be impossible or very difficult to write. |
 | The two most commonly used techniques for constructing a polyglot program are to make liberal use of languages which use different characters for comments and to redefine various tokens as others in different languages. |