Meme of two women fighting while a man smokes from a pipe in the background.
The women fighting are labeled “mathematicians defining pi” and “engineers just using 3 because it’s within tolerance”
The man smoking is labeled “astrophysicists” and the pipe is labeled “pi = 1”
And then you’re using C++ and they scold you for including cmath for just M_PI because it increases compilation times.
As they should, if that’s the only thing you are using it for, don’t introduce a whole header file, just put the following in the constants.h or equivalent that the proj for sure has:
#define M_PI 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288Yes, it’s literally what math.h has defined.
If I’m not completely mistaken M_PI is not part of the C standard, so depending on your stdlib or compiler or even compiler flags you will have to define it yourself even in C.
We’re talking about engineers here! We’re using MATLAB or Python if we’re programming at all.
Your not writing regular python code, your writing a special subset of python intended for engineers and scientists called “bad python code”
My code is not intended to be run by any idiots but myself! Anyways why can’t i make sense of what i have written just a month ago?
Are you using the appropriate license?
As a comp sci that interacts a lot with engineers, I feel this in my soul.
Coder/engineer confirmed.
You can’t say that for all engineers. I’m one and the biggest part of my job is programming in C++
Just wanted to say something similar. Any low latency high frequency code is written in c++, c or assembler. And that’s engineers work usually.
[glares in rust]
Still want to try rust but in my field it’s just not established enough unfortunately. But I love the idea of the language.
honestly, my rust comment was mostly a joke; rust is great for it, but its readability is really bad. i’m not a huge fan of writing/reading it, just using it.