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I've been programming since I was 15. I started with APL at the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics in 1974. At Carnegie-Mellon I learned FORTRAN, and ALGOL/W, and Pascal, did a lot of TOPS-20 assembly programming hacking the MM mail reader, a fair bit of TECO programming customizing the first versions of Emacs, and a bit of INTERLISP and SAIL. After graduating, I have worked in BLISS-36, a tiny bit of Cobol, a decade of C, lots of Perl and EMACS-LISP, C++, Ada, Tcl, C#, Java, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, and lately some Groovy.
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Apr 27 |
answered | Find how the data has been processed |
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Apr 27 |
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How can I learn to like C++? You could just be happy it's not Java. Or Pascal. |
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Apr 26 |
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Is the algorithm more important than the programming language? added 12 characters in body |
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Apr 26 |
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Is there a way to use a higher level language in a competition that only has C, C++ and Java by default? +1. I like elisp, but for a programming competition I would take LUA. |
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Apr 25 |
awarded | Good Answer |
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Apr 25 |
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Why isn't OCaml more popular? added 2 characters in body |
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Apr 25 |
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Is the algorithm more important than the programming language? @Dukeling: if the submissions are being judged by runtime, then C++ is the best choice. If they are being judged by development time, then scripting languages in general and Perl in particular will be better. |
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Apr 25 |
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Is the algorithm more important than the programming language? added 2 characters in body |
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Apr 25 |
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Is the algorithm more important than the programming language? @Dukeling: in the context of a timed programming competition, "powerful" means "shortest time to working code". There is no way that an expert C++ programmer can write 200 lines of working code faster than an expert Python programmer can write 40 lines. |
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Apr 25 |
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What is wrong with my program c language? 1) we don't do homework; 2) this is off-topic; 3) why did you write 's = (s*i + 1) / i' ? 4) why didn't you initialize s? |
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Apr 25 |
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How common is it for a team to write everything in-house? added 262 characters in body |
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Apr 25 |
answered | Is the algorithm more important than the programming language? |
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Apr 24 |
answered | Unit Test code generation |
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Apr 22 |
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How common is it for a team to write everything in-house? @Michael: The only people they could retain were the people who were present for the original decision to create in-house frameworks. New hires tended to leave after about a year. |
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Apr 22 |
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How common is it for a team to write everything in-house? added 43 characters in body |
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Apr 21 |
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First dedicated IDE? EMACS was certainly created primarily for coding. |
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Apr 21 |
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How common is it for a team to write everything in-house? added 1 characters in body |
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Apr 20 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Apr 20 |
answered | How common is it for a team to write everything in-house? |
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Apr 19 |
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Is there any difference between interfaces and abstract classes that have abstract methods only? @tdammers: LOL. That was a joke, right? |
