What Language Did You Write the CCC in?

[That Asian Guy]

For me, C#.

[saltpro15]

The only language I would ever write a contest in, C++!

[konnetikut]

Wrote in Java last year. Tried to learn C++ last week; gave up and wrote in Java again. Will of course learn C++ if I make it to stage 2 ;P

[Shanethe13]

Java. I wanted to do it in Haskell, but it doesn't seem like that's an option.

[TerranceN]

C++... I practiced on the past senior problems, which when taking more than one input from a file, it took input up to the next space or new line. I chickened out (as I can also write it next year) and took the junior competition, which requires console input, of which I only know cin.getLine(). I did not realize until j3 that more than one input would be placed on one line, so I had to learn, during the competition, how to tokenize a string in C++. Of course I made errors in pointer arithmetic, and it ended up taking me 45-60 minutes to make a tokenizer, which is why I only had 20 minutes to try and do j5, which I failed to do. I kinda wish I would have picked senior...

[DtY]

Python, I did a bunch of practise questions in C, but I had no idea how to do any of this set in C (without wasting needed time)

[edit]

c++:

#include <iostream> int main(void) {     int somenthing;     cin >> something;     return 0; }

Will read a single integer, and then can be used again to get the next, not mattering if it's on the same line, or the next (ignores whitespace)

[That Asian Guy]

TerranceN @ Thu Feb 25, 2010 6:45 pm wrote:

C++... I practiced on the past senior problems, which when taking more than one input from a file, it took input up to the next space or new line. I chickened out (as I can also write it next year) and took the junior competition, which requires console input, of which I only know cin.getLine(). I did not realize until j3 that more than one input would be placed on one line, so I had to learn, during the competition, how to tokenize a string in C++. Of course I made errors in pointer arithmetic, and it ended up taking me 45-60 minutes to make a tokenizer, which is why I only had 20 minutes to try and do j5, which I failed to do. I kinda wish I would have picked senior...

hate pointers... one of the main reasons i switched from c++ to c#

[DtY]

What's the big deal with pointers? I've never had an issue with them (well, I did once, but that was caused by me not knowing the order of operations with unary reference operator, and array indexing operator).

I generally avoid pointer arithmetic though, in a loop I'll use change an integer, and use that to retrieve array indices, instead of storing a pointer to the array index I'm working with.

According to Google, this is fast enough on a modern computer to warrant having no support for pointer arithmetic in Go, so that's good enough for me

[edit] I guess there's very little relevancy in this post.

[Insectoid]

I used Ruby. I had a lot of reviewing to do on it during the contest, looking up methods and such, so I only had time for S1 and S2. Was worth it though. First contest not in Turing or Java!

[SS1389]

I haven't written it yet, but I plan to definitely use Java.