Re: Advent of Code

[Kaj Eijlers <bizziboi@...>]

It's really fun.

There is a related subreddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/

It's really fascinating to see what some languages offer featurewise to solve the problems, some implementations in certain languages blew my mind for elegance, and prompted me to investigate the language.

On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 1:24 PM Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:

Op So. 2 Des. 2018 om 13:53 het Pierre Chapuis <catwell@archlinux.us> geskryf:
>
> Advent of Code [1] is a coding problem advent calendar: every day from December 1 to December 25, they publish two code problems that can be solved in any language.
>
> Like last year, I am doing it in Lua (I may solve the problem in another language as well some days, but I intend to do all of them in Lua at least). I publish my solutions [2] on GitHub.

Well, Lua seems to be suggested by the farewell greeting "Good lu--" :-)

Do they get tougher as Christmas draws near? The first two days'
problems have not exactly been of Project Euler standard.