Re: reading material?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> > If you're suitably masochistic, then you could come up with a C++
> > solution, but I doubt it would be natural or elegant. Besides, I don't
> > appreciate masochism when it comes to programming.
> 
> Actually, this will calculate x ^ (2 ^ 3), so the procedure should be named
> to-eighth-power, but be that as it may...
> 
> The C++ solution is both natural and elegant.  Two example solutions follow, 
> the

I think we have a fundamental disagreement about the meaning of
"natural and elegant." Let's not continue this discussion. 

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