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I was once asked “why bother learning these other languages, if you can’t use them”. It hadn’t occurred to this person that I code off hours. I’ve also been asked “what if you find these other languages actually are better than C++? Won’t you find it depressing having to code in a normal language then?” …
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(Update, added Casting SPELs) For better or worse, it’s accepted in our industry to be fluent in only a single programming language or technology. It’s lame, but there are plenty of excuses for this. “Turing equivalence” right? Finding quality tools is hard. And worse yet, to learn a new language you have to spend days …
Found this old C++ source file in my scratch directory, apparently from last September. I don’t even remember writing this, but it’s written using my idioms. If I did write it, rest assured it was primarily for amusement purposes (abusement purposes?) only. #include <iostream> using namespace std; int fibonacci(int x) { int a=0, b=1, temp; while(x?(–x,temp=a,a=b,b=temp+b):0); return …