Coding

bobbym · 2012-10-19 11:40:01

How the heck can anyone get bored of C++? Like those Java coders, never could understand them.

anonimnystefy · 2012-10-20 01:57:22

It's kinda mainstream... Everybody is used to it...

ShivamS · 2012-10-20 06:19:50

Frankly, C++ is too...procedural. I tried Perl, but prefer Ruby instead. And I agree with Stefy, C++ is as if you are instantaneously doing something you have to, rather then enjoying programming.

bobbym · 2012-10-20 08:16:06

Frankly, C++ is too...procedural

In your educational system or at work you will soon enough run into a functional rather than procedural language.

ShivamS · 2012-10-21 08:59:56

I still prefer other languages over C++.

bobbym · 2012-10-21 09:42:13

I prefer functional over procedural. But once you learned procedural first, forever will you think that way.

anonimnystefy · 2012-10-22 07:08:03

Have you two ever tried something of the sorts of APL and J?

bobbym · 2012-10-22 11:14:12

Hi;

I didn't like APL. Pretty early on I got fascinated by AI so the functional paradigm is where I stayed.

anonimnystefy · 2012-10-22 19:54:36

So, you have tried Lisp or Prolog?

ShivamS · 2012-10-23 01:25:58

I have tried Lisp.

bobbym · 2012-10-23 01:27:35

Mathematica uses prolog. Maxima uses lisp. I have used lisp for a while.

ShivamS · 2012-10-23 01:31:43

I did not like Lisp.

bobbym · 2012-10-23 01:38:09

( * 1 2 3 4 5 ) yields 120

ShivamS · 2012-10-23 01:39:39

Um, okay.

bobbym · 2012-10-23 01:43:09

Don't remember all that much about the language but I do remember writing a package to do multiprecision arithmetic in it.

ShivamS · 2012-10-23 01:43:44

I like creating compression systems. On IDE based languages anyways...

anonimnystefy · 2012-10-23 05:43:53

I am very impressed by the shortness of coded that gets written in J. I.e. it takes only 4 characters to sum a matrix +/+/...

bobbym · 2012-10-23 07:42:56

Sum a matrix?

anonimnystefy · 2012-10-23 09:17:46

I meant sum the elements of a matrix of numbers...

bobbym · 2012-10-23 09:27:34

But look at the awesome power of lisp

(mapcar #'+ '(1 2 3 4 5) '(10 20 30 40 50)

yields (11 22 33 44 55)

or M's power

{1,2,3,4,5}+{10,20,30,40,50} -> {11,22,33,44,55}

No annoying loop. No remembering whether arrays start at 0 or 1. No going past the end of the array.

anonimnystefy · 2012-10-23 10:11:39

J can do that too.

    1 2 3 4 5+11 12 13 14 15
12 14 16 18 20

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bobbym · 2012-10-23 10:16:17

Can J do this?

(Sum[x^k,{k,1,6,1}]/6)^5 //Expand

anonimnystefy · 2012-10-23 10:21:37

You must remeber J is neither a mathematical package nor a symbolic manipulator...

bobbym · 2012-10-23 10:25:23

So then why should anyone use it?

anonimnystefy · 2012-10-23 10:34:10

Why use Lisp?

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