I think I’d like to try this year’s in a language I haven’t touched before. What languages should I consider if I want something paradigmatically different from Go, Python, etc?
Scheme and Haskell could both be interesting.
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#32I think I’d like to try this year’s in a language I haven’t touched before. What languages should I consider if I want something paradigmatically different from Go, Python, etc?
Prolog or Forth or one of the ML's (SML, OCaml, etc...) come to mind.
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#33I think I’d like to try this year’s in a language I haven’t touched before. What languages should I consider if I want something paradigmatically different from Go, Python, etc?
I would go for something functional. Haskell? Or possibly Scala
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#34I am looking at advent of code for years but never tried. Why? As they would like to force you to login with GitHub, Google, Twitter or Reddit account. I will wait for the next year, maybe 2024 Advent of Code will be less intrusive. If not... I can live without it. A hint to the authors for simple load/save, far simpler than what you have now, without use of intrusive 3rd party providers: use Digest::SHA qw(hmac_sha2…
Just make a throwaway google?
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#35my screen isn't big enough vertically - on default zoom place for first several days gets hidden below the bottom
was so strange to see absolutely empty page until I thought of scrolling down
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#36Another year and another Advent of Code that I don't have enough time in my life to do. One year I'll actually finish!
It's really the worst time of the year for something like this. I hardly remember a time when I wasn't completely swamped with tasks before Christmas. A summer puzzle would be much more doable...
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#37Shameless Plug: If anybody is doing Advent of Code and wants to win tickets to the 2024 Carolina Code Conference (Greenville, SC in August) we're doing a ticket challenge. 22 tickets up for grabs with lots of ways to win. Entry details here.
https://blog.carolina.codes/p/advent-of-carolina-code-ticket...
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#38I think I’d like to try this year’s in a language I haven’t touched before. What languages should I consider if I want something paradigmatically different from Go, Python, etc?
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#39Part two was exceptionally hard. Many people on reddit reporting they were hit by one edge case that's not covered in the examples. But my implementation passed these edge cases too. I was hit by another edge case. So there are at least two edge-cases (which are in the actual data) that aren't covered in the examples or the description.
Yeah, part two was really something. I got part one in 2:40, and then spent half an hour trying to figure out what the hell was going wrong with part two, lol.
Maybe it was actually done on purpose to foil ChatGPT, because when I get desperate and tried to let GPT4 solve it, it also couldn't figure it out.
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#40Another year and another Advent of Code that I don't have enough time in my life to do. One year I'll actually finish!
It's really the worst time of the year for something like this. I hardly remember a time when I wasn't completely swamped with tasks before Christmas. A summer puzzle would be much more doable...
The first half of the month is swamped because everybody takes the second half off of work.