Very true, and John Randall points out that the stats
seem to be a bit mangled anyway....
Mind you <tic> we have got Roger Hui to build in just
those little things that help solve the latest problems.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a new beta for every
really challenging puzzle! <tic>
Mike
Roger Hui wrote:
<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
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