<tongue-in-cheek> Mike, the problem is all the riff-raff who specified their preference as APL/J/K and then only solved one or two of the problems, pulling down the overall average for APL/J/K. </tongue-in-cheek>
Actually, this topic has been discussed before. The "language of choice" thing is not very illuminating or particularly relevant. To me, what is relevant is the material in the MathsChallenge forums. In problem after problem, you will find that the APL/J/K solutions beat the others hands down in terms of expressiveness, conciseness, and even efficiency. Moreover, the J solutions are the best due to the built-in support for extended precision arithmetic, prime numbers, and factoring, facilities required for solving many of the problems. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Programming forum" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 4:12 PM Subject: [Jprogramming] Not a spoiler Several J forum correspondents are taking part in "mathschallenge" - eg the latest at http://www.mathschallenge.net/index.php?section=project&ref=problems&id=117 I see that two other APL/J/K people are listed as solving this one, but the stats only list one solution as APL/J/K. I think this means that they haven't stated APL/J/K as their preferred language for this particular problem even though it is presumably their favourite class of language in general. This is maybe one reason why "Delphi, used by 2%, seems to be the language of choice for the highest scoring users." A pity if we wish to show how effective our preferred language is. Mike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
