From: Gautier write-only address <gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Advent of Code, Day 25
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 13:14:35 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
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> The competition rewards fast solution, done in any way possible, so writing an Ada program is not the way to get on the leaderboard...
It's perhaps more a question of preparation (like having a template ready with some pre-instantiated hashed maps, sets, vectors, and a basic pre-cooked text parser), experience (the "pros" spot yet another "game of life", or a puzzle similar to the xyz one in 2018), being tolerant to badly formatted source and 1-character identifiers (for the first draft and getting the solution)... and being numerous. In a large community you find a few people that are running really fast :-). Actually, is there a breakdown of the leaderboard by language?
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2020-12-30 18:32 Advent of Code, Day 25 John Perry
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