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Written by tef on 2025-02-05 at 18:56

https://explaining.software/archive/the-sudoku-affair/

incredible writeup of one of the best running jokes in programming

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Written by Smoljaguar on 2025-02-05 at 19:33

@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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Written by tef on 2025-02-05 at 19:34

@Smoljaguar it sounds like you're a functional programmer, huh

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Written by tef on 2025-02-05 at 19:36

@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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Written by tef on 2025-02-05 at 19:38

@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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Toot

Written by Smoljaguar on 2025-02-05 at 19:46

@tef definitely!

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