[Haskell-cafe] A tale of Project Euler

Andrew Coppin andrewcoppin at btinternet.com
Wed Nov 28 16:28:49 EST 2007


Michaeljohn Clement wrote:
> Andrew Coppin wrote:
>   
>> First, somebody else wrote this in C:
>>
>> int n = 2 , m , primesFound = 0;
>>
>> for( n=0;n < MAX_NUMBERS;n++ )
>> if( prime[n] )
>> {
>> primesFound++;
>>
>> if( primesFound == 10001 )
>>   cout << n << " is the 10001st prime." << endl;
>>     
>
> Um, I can't *believe* nobody else pointed this 
> out, but that isn't C, it's C++.
>   

Really? How can you tell?

Well anyway, the guy who wrote it said it's C. I suppose it was a simple 
oversight...



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