Anthony Wang
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Originally posted on my old blog
Your first podcast will be awful
Your first video will be awful
Your first article will be awful
Your first art will be awful
Your first photo will be awful
Your first game will be awful
But your first code will be perfect.
Zero bugs and very clean code.
It will be "Hello, world!"-- Anonymous
For the past few years, "programming" and "C++" have been pratically synonymous for me. I knew about the wild world of other programming languages, but for the most part, I just stayed in my little C++ bubble. After all, for competitive programming, C++ is enough.
But C++ has its limits. For modeling infections diseases, its lack of easy-to-use scientifc and numerical libraries complicated my project, and I ended up using Python. And AP Computer Science, which should really be called AP Java Language and Composition, forced me to learn Java. (Although I think College Board should switch to Python for that course) And trying out a new programming language couldn't be easier, with loads of online tutorials and compilers such as OnlineGDB. And if I want to actually run a language on my Ubuntu computer and do benchmarks, I can just sudo apt install it.
So what is this project?
This project is not meant to be an objective comparison of programming languages. Comparing programming languages with benchmarks is notoriously difficult, and there are already great resources out there for that, so think of this project as more of a personal exploration of infinite universe of programming languages. (And don't take my "benchmarks" too seriously)
So what are you going to do, anyways?
This is were the pseudocode below comes into play:
It contains everything to give a quick, high-level overview of a programming language: a recursive function definiton, an if else statement, an array or list, a for loop, and two nested loops through the array or list. The entire program has time complexity O(N^2 log N) of course, and with N = 1000, this runs at around a second in a typical programming language, allowing us to make some rough performance comparisons. (Although you really shouldn't take these measurements too seriously, as I said above)
I already have it implemented in about 10 different programming languages so far, so I'll try to post a new part about my experience with each language every day. I'm aiming for at least 20 language, but we'll see. It's all in the GitHub.
Anyways, check back tomorrow in two weeks for C++!