begin  quoting John H. Robinson, IV as of Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 09:56:06AM -0700:
[snip]
> I confess, I don't fully understand the problem spec in order to assist
> with that. However, I can say that the algorithm is mostly independent
> of the language used.

Don't pick your language until you've looked at the problem...

> Write your algorithm is psuedo code, or a flowcahrt. The syntax takes
> care of itself.

Yup.

> Obviously, the algorithm may lend itself to a functional, object
> oriented, or procedural language. Inthose cases, the language choice may
> matter. If all you know are procedural languages (if anyone says Perl
> (any version) is Object Oriented, I'll laugh) then the choice of launage
> is mostly irrelevant.

I'm actually wondering if the problem in question wouldn't be best
described in Prolog.

-Stewart

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