https://explaining.software/archive/the-sudoku-affair/
incredible writeup of one of the best running jokes in programming
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@tef Part of the contrast might also be the style of programming; norvig is used to FP whereas Jeffries is used to OOP. FP generally has concise elegant solutions which makes it easier to keep everything in your head, so I'd expect somebody used to FP to be better at that sort of code (I noticed this a lot going from dabbling in Haskell and seeing how it changed my mindset writing Python)
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@Smoljaguar it sounds like you're a functional programmer, huh
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@Smoljaguar i kid but "concise elegant solutions" is also how rubyists describe their one-liners, and also how APL programmers talk about their code too :-)
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@Smoljaguar and, well, if we're talking about constraint and search based programming, logic programming should get a look in well before it's non-goal directed cousin in modern FP
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@tef definitely!
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@tef Yeah, I mean I do find uiua (an array language) interesting and how it can be maximally concise but reflecting on it you do have a tradeoff between conciseness and what sort of problems you can solve, even if you do hear stories of some people claiming to write serious large projects in k
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@tef just naive and unjaded and therefore easily taken in by enthusiastic evangelism lol
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