Timeline for Multiplying binary strings using divide and conquer in C++
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| Feb 16 at 17:10 | comment | added | indi | Good grief people, it’s just a little harmless hyperbole to really hammer home the fact that types matter a lot in C++. Most people’s programming background is Java, Python, Javascript, or C, and in none of them—hell, in nothing else on the Tiobe top 20—is the type system remotely as important as C++. Of course there are more strongly-type languages, duh… just not any that most people have used (Haskell, for example, is apparently less popular than freakin’ COBOL). Starting a “war” over a throwaway statement like that is so stupid, I can’t even. | |
| Feb 16 at 16:04 | comment | added | Matthieu M. | @J_H: Or alternatively, I'd skip the showboating. It's sufficient to say that C++ is a strongly typed language, perhaps even adding "very", claiming it's "the" strongly typed language just invites a language war really. I can already sense ATS and Idris users sharpening their knives as they prepare to showcase how dependent typing is even more strongly typed that anything C++ can offer... | |
| Feb 14 at 17:20 | comment | added | insipidintegrator | THANKS! Will take me a few days to go through, but I def think I'll learn a lot from this answer | |
| Feb 14 at 5:39 | history | edited | Toby Speight | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 14 at 5:33 | comment | added | Toby Speight | Thanks for introducing me to the Lippincott function - that's a useful technique that had passed me by! I always learn something from your answers. | |
| Feb 14 at 1:31 | comment | added | J_H | Wow, I really like your intro, it offers some good motivation. it is the strongly-typed language Well, this Answer is already a bit on the long side, but I encourage you to slightly develop "the competition". I feel that many engineers could size up how Java's strong typing compares with C++'s. (And then, yeah, there's the whole java 1.5 "type erasure" debacle to kludge in support for Generics, sigh!) What I would love to see you develop is how Haskell and C++ go head-to-head, given that turning the answer and its sub-problems into types is a big part of arriving at a solution. | |
| Feb 14 at 1:09 | history | answered | indi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |