Talk:Odd word problem: Difference between revisions
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: This task is all about a language's ability to delay code execution, and I'm not the least bit interested in seeing actual reversed words. If you need to implement coroutines in J for this, good for you; if you want to implement char-at-a-time for streams, don't bother: put chars in an array or a string and pop them one at a time and pretend it's a stream, I'm fine with that. J can do ''that'', right?
: As to "fair", I call bogus. If your language is not good at doing something, it's either its design feature or an inadequacy, there's nothing inherently unfair about the task unless it's specifically tailored to suit some obscure features of one language in mind (to make other languages "look bad", I suppose). By your fairness argument, what kind of complaint should I lodge at the discussion page of [[OpenGL Pixel Shader]] if I were to write code in ZX spectrum basic? --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 18:51, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
:: And I feel that your "call bogus" is itself bogus: The distinction, here, was the distinction between "implicit" and "explicit" and, to rephrase, I am saying that it's not meaningful to characterize that distinction as a distinction between "good at" and "not good at". (That said, I do not understand your question about ZX Spectrum Basic.) --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 19:11, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
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