[bip] Bioinformatics Programming Language Shootout, Python performance poopoo'd

[Paul Davis]

>
> > I'm not a C++ programer any more - haven't been for 10 years - so
> > there's probably cleaner ways to do some of this.
>
> Duh!  I forgot about sscanf.  That's been the way to do this sort of
> lightweight parsing in C for 30+ years, and it works just fine with C+
> + strings.  It does about as much validation as the regexp patterns do.
>

Not to be a picky bastard about a different language, but sscanf
generally shouldn't be used in C++ code.

Variable arguments and their inherent lack of typesafety pretty much
violate every aspect of C++.  Or to put it differently, C++ BDFL
Stroustrup says don't use them.

Basic formatted input would be accomplished with the istringstream
extraction operator.

template <class T>
std::istringstream::operator>>(T& dest)

But, that'd kill your LOC count...

Just my $0.02

Paul Davis