On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Jonas Maebe <[email protected]> wrote: > If a major problem is really the lack of standard support for > arbitrary-precision arithmetic, does that not mean that C and C++ are no > longer serious options either?
Actually, this is considered a drawback of C++ (nobody uses pure C in competitions). Top competitors often learn Java just in case they need BigInteger or more efficient HashMap. Note that there is nothing magic in long arithmetics itself, I do not expect Pascal's downward trend to be suddenly reversed by inclusion of a single library. However, it would be a good start -- I have already persuaded some teachers to take a second look on the language based in this and recent STL support. -- Alexander S. Klenin _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
