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If you're into this sort of thing, definitely check out the ICFP Programming Contest -- take next Friday off and join in on the fun! https://icfpcontest2019.github.io/
How does this work? What’s stopping me from using some hyperpowered esolang I cooked up for the competition?
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And just syntax decision. if (x) { y } else { z } if x: y else: z Assuming x and y are 1 line but long enough expressions you don't want to use a trinary operator (available in both) the python is 2/3rds the length of the c because of bracketing. Obviously cherry picked, but I bet these differences add up.
Of course, you can omit the braces if there’s a single statement (though I personally never do this).
I wrote the style of C that I actually write, but it's probably not fair for me to label it as a property of just the language.
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They probably wouldn't have been able to finish the project in time.
And a good professor would have flunked them for poor judgment.
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Of course, you can omit the braces if there’s a single statement (though I personally never do this).
Sure, and you can put the else on the same line as the end of the if block even without doing that. Or you could make the difference bigger by putting the opening brace on a newline. I wrote the style of C that I actually write, but it's probably not fair for me to label it as a property of just the language.
I got that Boost Spirit, a powerful parsing library, was forbidden. Were all the Boost libraries similarly embargoed?
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They probably wouldn't have been able to finish the project in time.
And a good professor would have flunked them for poor judgment.
Where's the code? I scanned this article a few times and can't find a link to it.
None of it is open source because it was done for a school course that uses the same project every term. The only use for having access to the code would be cheating on that project. The school gets mad when people publish the source for their school projects, especially when it isn't otherwise useful, that's also why my ray tracer isn't open source.
I find it curious that both the team that used C++, and the author, both appear to believe that sum types and related facilities are not usable or conveniently expressible in C++. I got that Boost Spirit, a powerful parsing library, was forbidden. Were all the Boost libraries similarly embargoed?
Also note that it's not only the sum types that are important, powerful pattern matching facilities are part of what makes them so valuable.