Heh. Regarding major contests like TC, ACM and last year's code jam. The majority of people use C++ in all phases of the tournaments. Not only that, but the percentage of people using C++ always seems to grow as contestants get eliminated. Not to say this is a reason to switch to C+ +. Just saying that the alleged "compilation problems (and so)" did not seem like a problem at all to most contestants and specially most of the top contestants,
Call me crazy but perhaps the reason so many people use C++ is because it is as fast as C yet it comes with the STL which is one of the most usefu - for contests- collection of data structures... In last year's codejam you could even use boost which is really just a lot of stuff... Maybe, just maybe these are the reasons that it isn't such a "horrible language for contests". On Jul 2, 4:30 am, Roman <[email protected]> wrote: > I think that C++ the worst language actually that can be chosen for > the contest. > > If you are good in any of these languages use them > Pyton , Ruby , Groovy, C# and sure the most suitable JAVA. > If you dont know anything about them , use pure C > > IDE , i prefer eclipse for C and JAVA/Groovy .... > > C++ is a horrible language for the contest , since your ll be wasting > more time on compilation problems (and so) than thinking about your > actual problem. > > On Jul 1, 8:16 pm, LOVE HASIJA <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hey All Geeks, > > > I wanna Use C++ for the Google Code Jam, I do have some queries if > > anyone can suggest.... > > > The best IDE I should use, or if a better language than C++.. > > > Thanks.. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
