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@Nemo Even if he had a smartphone the GPS satellites that the smartphone senses to tell you where you are are not there yet.

I see a lot of comments about whether the "market of ideas" works better than "tolerance paradox", but that was not the question the OP asked. This answer provides a competing point of view and explains it quite well.

@Buffy When they grade? Yes they are! (or at least they should). It's different when they teach though.

@Buffy tiny inconsequential things can still be ethical or not.

@Buffy By giving points the examiner is testifying to the rest of society (like employers, customers, competitors, government agencies and the general public) that the candidate has a certain level of understanding of the course material. If that is not the case, the mark is a lie. The victims are those who might be fooled by the lie and other people to whom the candidate might be preferred.

I can't help to notice that while you have an early exit while parsing in C++ you still have php parse the whole line. Similarly, while C++ just outputs the needed fields, php is creating a data structure and then pass that to a library function to concatenate it into a new string variable, which is then output. Shouldn't the two programs be implementations of the same algorithm?

You should specify the country you live in. Both what is "normal" and what is legal change from country to country.

I believe this answer to be useful but needlessly rude. There is no need for the tone used and the answer is less readable (and much longer) because of this.

I believe this answer to be useful but needlessly rude. There is no need for the tone used and the answer is less readable (and much longer) because of this.