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I wasn't trying to attract attention to my post by changing the title. I just thought it was the most interesting part of the article. I was hoping to get feedb
by smharris65 16y ago
I wasn't trying to attract attention to my post by changing the title. I just thought it was the most interesting part of the article. I was hoping to get feedback on why a contestant would be able to compete very well with Pascal over C++. If I posted using the original title how would I generate that specific discussion?
- hugh3 16y agoPerhaps appending a "How" or "Why" to your title might have made your intention clearer. And in answer to your question: meh, Pascal and C are pretty much the same damn language with a couple of minor changes, and C++ mostly just adds a bunch of junk which is useless for small projects.
- fbcocq 16y agoI was hoping to get feedback on why a contestant would be able to compete very well with Pascal over C++. Because that's what he's been practicing with. CS courses in schools in Eastern Europe are tought in Pascal, or at least used to be. In the end it's as interesting as the brand of chess pieces at a chess tournament. If you look at the solutions to Google Code Jam (http://www.go-hero.net/jam/10/languages/0 http://www.go-hero.net/jam/10/languages/0) for example then you'll see that it's mostly disgusting code made of arrays and loops and you can do those in pretty much any language. People get good at algorithms by sitting down, learning and implementing them, not by sweating the choice of language.