Final post on Advent of Code. Here’s where things get a little hairy.
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January 7, 2016
Advent of Code, pt 3
January 3, 2016
Advent of Code pt 2
More on Advent of Code. This next set of problems was a little trickier than the previous ones, but still not too scary. I plunged into the deep end for the language selection, though.
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January 2, 2016
Advent of Code pt 1
So I spent most of December working on Advent of Code. I thought I’d go with the thing somebody suggested and solve each day in a different language, which turned out to be pretty fun. You can see my solutions on github but I figured I’d write a little thing up too. This is mostly about the languages but also a bit about the questions themselves, so it has a few spoilers. If you do want to solve this yourself you might want to hold off on reading it.
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December 20, 2009
Do or do not
March 25, 2009
The ultimate perl program
The other day somebody asked if it’s possible to write a non-trivial perl program that uses no alphabetical characters whatsoever. People make jokes about this but I can’t find any actual treatment of the subject, so here’s a brief discussion.
March 4, 2009
T3 Hacking
Somebody requested help with something a little fancy with actors in TADS 3 — to be able to queue up orders to NPCs then have them all execute at once — and it turned out to be a little more involved than I was expecting, so I thought I’d put up the code.