From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 X-Received: by 2002:ac8:59d5:: with SMTP id f21mr56423193qtf.2.1609362875858; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 13:14:35 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 2002:a37:60f:: with SMTP id 15mr54418217qkg.211.1609362875728; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 13:14:35 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.uzoreto.com!tr2.eu1.usenetexpress.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr3.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 13:14:35 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <6b3de658-abd7-4178-983d-eb7b44aa4315n@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2a02:1206:4564:fe50:516b:b3a3:1055:498b; posting-account=gRqrnQkAAAAC_02ynnhqGk1VRQlve6ZG NNTP-Posting-Host: 2a02:1206:4564:fe50:516b:b3a3:1055:498b References: <6b3de658-abd7-4178-983d-eb7b44aa4315n@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <088794e1-66b1-477b-b8b4-b1a028ace419n@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Advent of Code, Day 25 From: Gautier write-only address Injection-Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 21:14:35 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:60979 List-Id: > The competition rewards fast solution, done in any way possible, so writi= ng 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 w= ith some pre-instantiated hashed maps, sets, vectors, and a basic pre-cooke= d 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 so= lution)... and being numerous. In a large community you find a few people t= hat are running really fast :-). Actually, is there a breakdown of the lead= erboard by language?