Many programming languages exist for which I don't have enough time to look into. I need an excuse to spend a small amount of time on some languages I have never tried. But how? The advent of code offered good criteria for this purpose:
- Different problems (no monotony)
- Small problems (small amount of spent time)
- Language agnostic (try all the languages!)
I managed to do the problems the day they came out until day 16. Also, most problems took me less than 2 hours to do (apart from day 16 and 21 basically), taking into account that I used a language I never used before (and counting setting up the compiler/interpreter).
This, somehow, proves to me again that a programming language is a just tool, and that the main concepts and paradigms are similar in all languages. Or at least, in each language "family". I mainly tried imperative and functional languages, since those are the most used. I neglected logical programming on purpose because I already had the opportunity to work with Prolog to build an AI for a game.
I finished the calendar on January 1st 2018.
- Day 1 - Rust
- Day 2 - Julia
- Day 3 - Ruby
- Day 4 - Haskell
- Day 5 - Perl
- Day 6 - OCaml
- Day 7 - Go
- Day 8 - Elixir
- Day 9 - Dart
- Day 10 - F#
- Day 11 - Kotlin
- Day 12 - Scala
- Day 13 - Hy
- Day 14 - D
- Day 15 - Lua
- Day 16 - Groovy
- Day 17 - R
- Day 18 - Common Lisp
- Day 19 - PHP
- Day 20 - Fortran
- Day 21 - Erlang
- Day 22 - Crystal
- Day 23 - CoffeeScript
- Day 24 - Scheme
- Day 25 - Smalltalk
Thank you very much Eric Wastl for this awesome advent project. This is the first year I join the adventure, and I hope it will not be the last.
Merry Christmas!