Re: Google Code Jam language usage

2009-09-15 Thread Bearophile
(If you see any error in what I have written here, please tell me.) So far I've never done a Google Code Jam. There are 12 problems there (G.C.Jam 2009), and the best solutions are 9 in C++ and 3 in C (I think they are the best solutions, but I am not sure). The code of all such best solutions is

Re: Google Code Jam language usage

2009-09-15 Thread Bearophile
(There can be ways to speed up this Python code, I have not tried to use a 1D matrix with shifts to find the right starting of the rows as in C, and often in such dynamic programming algorithms you can just keep 2 rows to avoid storing the whole dynamic matrix, this saves memory and speed up

Re: Google Code Jam language usage

2009-09-14 Thread Andreas Waldenburger
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:17:02 -0400 Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: At the recent Google Code Jam, Python was the 3rd most popular language after C/C++ and Java. Good for C/C++ and Java that they are not ranked by fun per line. /W -- INVALID? DE! --

Google Code Jam language usage

2009-09-14 Thread Terry Reedy
At the recent Google Code Jam, Python was the 3rd most popular language after C/C++ and Java. From qualification round http://www.go-hero.net/jam/09/languages/0 Language #contests (rounded) C/C++ 4200 Java 1900 Python 900 C# 600 Perl 300 Ruby 200 PHP 200 --

Re: Google Code Jam language usage

2009-09-14 Thread Stefan Behnel
Andreas Waldenburger wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:17:02 -0400 Terry Reedy wrote: At the recent Google Code Jam, Python was the 3rd most popular language after C/C++ and Java. Good for C/C++ and Java that they are not ranked by fun per line. Oh, I actually tend to have a lot of fun per