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The million digit Fibonacci number challenge. Calculate fibo(4784969) in various languages.
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Open ejolson2005 opened 5 years ago

ejolson2005 commented 5 years ago

It seems James locked our Fibonacci thread on the Raspberry Pi forum with the recommendation that we continue the discussion elsewhere

Sorry for raising this issue here.

Do you have any thoughts whether it is worth continuing and if so where?

All the best, Eric

ZiCog commented 5 years ago

Hi Eric,

I'm saddened and disappointed with jamesh there. Because:

We don't know what the complaints were about. We don't know who complained, they were too spineless to speak for themselves. The thread was characterized as a "language war". Which is absurd given that it was the most civil discussion of various languages, programming models and their application to a particular fascinating problem I have ever seen on the net.

Let me have morning coffee and think about it...

Meanwhile a raised an issue here re: the missing Visual Basic solution. If you have a moment...

ejolson2005 commented 5 years ago

I looks like we have approval to continue discussion in a new thread

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=240287#p1466629

as well as a statement from the moderator to the effect that it wasn't really a language war but that the old thread required too much maintenance to keep open.

ejolson2005 commented 4 years ago

It would appear we have suffered another setback in the thread

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=257317

One of the participants had their posts be deleted and this has damaged the coherency of the discussion. I suspect the reason is related to the recent security breach

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/10/broadcom_cable_haunt_vulnerability/

coupled with recent bragging about how complicated C++ code works so amazingly well in the embedded systems world that value-added resellers need only modify it slightly to ship.

At any rate, it doesn't matter what the reason. Do you have any ideas how to recover the thread?

ZiCog commented 4 years ago

This is all very confusing.

The only Tatami Pi Fun code I have is here: https://github.com/ZiCog/tatami-rust

Which includes codes in C, C++ and Rust.

I have nothing that can help with other codes or missing threads or thread posts.

I do worry that it's very hard to talk about the pros and cons of this programming language or that, for whatever purpose, without some moderator declaring it a 'language war mud slinging match' and shutting down.