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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 X-Received: by 2002:a37:4796:: with SMTP id u144mr53113157qka.235.1609353129603; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 10:32:09 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 2002:a37:63d1:: with SMTP id x200mr54176645qkb.164.1609353129444; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 10:32:09 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.uzoreto.com!tr1.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 10:32:09 -0800 (PST) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=173.71.207.183; posting-account=JSxOkAoAAADa00TJoz2WZ_46XrZCdXeS NNTP-Posting-Host: 173.71.207.183 User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <6b3de658-abd7-4178-983d-eb7b44aa4315n@googlegroups.com> Subject: Advent of Code, Day 25 From: John Perry Injection-Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 18:32:09 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:60977 List-Id: That was... anticlimactic. Days 23 and 24 went by relatively easily, and Da= y 25 was easiest of all. Not complaining, and I still managed to find an Ad= a feature that I used for the first time! (I think) Time to buy the T-shirt= ;-) The competition rewards fast solution, done in any way possible, so writing= an Ada program is not the way to get on the leaderboard... someone pointed= out that you could solve some problems using an Excel worksheet. :-) That'= s fine by me; this was my first time doing it, and it accomplished what I w= anted: by the end of the 25th pair of puzzles I had used (and felt I unders= tood) lots of Ada features (language or library) that before I'd used at mo= st once. Thanks again to the people who sent comments and posted their own solutions= ; it was instructive!