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Why do some programmers categorize C, Python, C++ differently? - regarding level
I am taking an introductory course on python and the instructor says that python is a high level language and C and C++ are low level languages. It's just confusing. I thought that C, C++, Python, ...
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When the stack frames become computationally expensive
I've been experimenting with different data structures and algorithms in Python, Java and C to see in what circumstances function/method inlining could bring meaningful gains in terms of the execution ...
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Is C usually a last resort?
I've been learning C recently.
I've completed a number of coding challenges on websites like codewars in C, and I always find myself wishing I had something like Python's flexible data structures. In ...
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How to have two different programs with two different languages interact?
I don't know if this is too broad or not, but I am a youngish programmer still in college, its my Junior year. I feel like I have a pretty good grasps for different languages and have a pretty good ...
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How can Python, a language that supports Object Oriented Programming, be implemented in C, which is not an Object Oriented Programming language?
To my understanding, C does not have the concept of objects, then how can Python be implemented in C to support something that C can not? How is the concept of "Object" modeled in C? What is ...
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What should I use to graphically represent an object's position on a fixed path using python(preferred)?
Consider 2 roads merging into one(This map is supposed to remain fixed). The program will not generate this map. The program will read this map and plot positions on it on its own.
The python program ...
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Loop complexity in C Vs Python
Just now I was reading a Python question on stack overflow, about clamping a list/array of results to be within a certain range.
Once of the more simple answers suggested something like:
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How to solve the problem of nested comments
It appears in not just one language that comments can't be nested. Do you have a good solution for this problem? One workaround in C/C++ and Java is to only use the single-line comment but it becomes ...
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Managing error code and error message mapping
As part of a game engine I am writing in cython, one of the challenges I am facing is creating a consistent interface for error handling that works at the C and python levels of my code. I am ...
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Possible motivation of having a minimal main function as in CPython source code?
I was recently looking through the CPython source code and noticed something rather intriguing:
/* Minimal main program -- everything is loaded from the library */
#include "Python.h"
#include "...
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Designing for an algorithm that reports progress
I have an iterative algorithm and I want to print the progress. However, I may also want it not to print any information, or to print it in a different way, or do other logic. In an object oriented ...
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How and why do we have underscores in variable naming
If I look in python code and sometimes maybe also in C codes, there is often two variables with the same name except for the underscore. For example two variables
variable1 data;
variable2 _data;
Why ...
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Definition of Generic function
1)
Below is a python function summation, that can perform sum of cubes/squares/.., similar operations.
def identity(k):
return k
def cube(k):
return pow(k, 3)
def square(k):
return ...
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Detect if code is C
I am currently using Python to write a compiler manager. I have to detect whether given source code is C, even if the code has a few syntax errors. I am currently using the file's extension to tell, ...
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Why use a higher level language? [closed]
A question that gets asked a lot is "Why use low level languages if you can code in high level languages more easily (and often tersely)?". I think the answers are fairly straight forward here, being ...
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