How did you arrive at C++ and Python? Yes I'm aware they have many structural and aesthetic differences, but why would you not choose a language with a different paradigm—functional, logical, even procedural, etc?
How did you arrive at C++ and Python? Yes I'm aware they have many structural and aesthetic differences, but why would you not choose a language with a different paradigm—functional, logical, even procedural, etc?
Good question. I chose them because they are the languages that I use professionally and would choose for technical interviews. I expect to be asked to solve problems in either language in any given interview.
Technical interviews are different enough from day-to-day work that I still find it valuable to practice in them.
I hope you really do it more as enjoyment (like people do crosswords) with just a very secondary benefit of technical interviews, because otherwise I can't but find this rat race obsession super sad.
Relatedly, I've noticed the strange infatuation that a lot of C++ programmers have with Python specifically. I have no idea why that is.
Both have `class` keyword
So does JS, yet it's not the scripting language du jour in the C++ world.