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Also, by the way, thanks for finding an oversight of mine concerning the ''unprimeable'' task ('''25''' vs. '''35'''). Another case of not seeing the obvious. It was at one time, '''25''', and I changed it to '''35''', but the change was done on my other computer, and it never crossed over (walked over by using a USB stick) to my "work" computer. My other computer is an air-gap computer, a virgin (by internet standards). -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 19:50, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
:I'm pleased in a way that you didn't add a stretch goal as these tend to turn into an 'arms race' between the faster languages (and Pascal always wins!).
:As you say, tasks involving prime numbers can be a problem when you don't have an isPrime function built-in. Go is in the same boat as REXX here as we don't have anything specifically for numbers up to 64 bits. We do have the ProbablyPrime() method for big integers which is said to be 100% accurate for numbers up to 2^64 (via the Bailee-PSW test) but big integers are unpleasant to use which is why I normally opt for simpler algorithms when the numbers involved are not too large.
:My first languages were Algol 60 and Fortran (I've never used PL/I) but I can't remember much about either now. After years of programming in the .NET and JVM languages, the relative simplicity of Go is refreshing (it more or less forces you to write clear, easily maintainable code) and it's good to know that you find it one of the clearer languages to understand yourself :)
:There is rather a lot of nit-picking on RC which probably puts people off from adding new tasks. Nevertheless I hope you'll continue to find the time (aside from your other hobbies) to add some more yourself as I always find them interesting and in some cases (the 'rare numbers' one for example) very challenging.
:I know you don't always see eye to eye with Thundergnat but I think you'll probably agree that (together with Paddy3118) he does a good job of administering the site, stamping hard on spammers and, of course, adding some interesting tasks himself. --[[User:PureFox|PureFox]] ([[User talk:PureFox|talk]]) 23:17, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
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