^ That, too. I work in Bioinformatics, so I use Perl for EVERYTHING. Also, Perl is basically just awesome.
EDIT: @TheHippo
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YEE PYTHON!
import life
insta ai rite ther people
python is fun and easy, and mostly quite good for an intro.
In school, I took the Intro To Computer Programming class and it teaches C++. It was relatively easy, but all of the libraries and functions were made by the publishers of the C++ textbook my school has provided (Lawrenceville Press) just to make it easier. I don’t know how difficult C++ actually is, but the next class is AP Computer Science. In that class, I would be using Java. I never used any other programming language besides textbook C++, so I can’t say much about Java (or any other language for that matter). I guess the best programming language to start off with depends on how said programming language is taught. And then (somehow) you can build up from the basics.
I’m taking AP Computer Science right now. That’s all we’re focusing on… Java… I hate it. :hmph:
I’m doing great in the class and programming is fine and all, but I just can’t stand Java. I’m not entirely sure why, though.
public static void main (String[]args)
Perhaps that’s the reason?
And what’s wrong with that? There are many pros and cons of using Java (I use it almost exclusively) but that isn’t one of them.
The best part about LISP is that it has about three syntax rules, so everything that the LISP interpreter outputs can be fed right back into the interpreter and be valid input. this means that you can write a LISP function which returns a new function which returns another new function, which the interpreter will then execute.
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I’ve been using Java because they teach it in the Computer Science course i’m doing, it’s much like C++, only everything is a class and it has no pointer arithmetic, and you don’t have to manage the memory yourself.
But i do disagree that unions are useless, they’re a cheap way to store multiple variable types in the same memory, the alternative is casting to all the different types, or using abstract classes and inheritance, and when you’re using types that are the same size as a pointer, you’re wasting space.
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It’s also blown.
Sounds useful and completely messy.
I don’t know that’s the first thing that came to mind :3 . I got so annoyed by having to put that at the beginning of every program that I made a macro for it. I’m surprised I even remember it.
LISP was designed with AI in mind. The idea was that the program could generate new code to react to new stimuli as it executes. I actually have no idea how well it did in that capacity, although it still gets used for a lot of general computing tasks. As for messy, parentheses, parentheses everywhere…
AIs should learn programming styles.
Putting comments, formatting and shit.
Self replicating AI would be a bad idea. Because Reapers.
I heard the same so I started foolin around with PHP.
I’mlooking forward to it as well =)
It says something about us as nerds that you pulled out “reapers” before “skynet.”
Gotta go with what’s modern. Terminator is old news.
