Advent of Code 2016 is a programming contest, in which a new puzzle comes online every day from 1 until 25 December. These are my solutions to the puzzles. As an additional challenge, I solved each day's puzzle in a different programming language.
I used only "mainstream" programming languages, not esoteric or toy languages, because this will be hard enough as is. However, I did include some older languages in the list out of historic interest. Plus, a free (as in beer) implementation for Linux has to exist.
Languages I could still have used, roughly in order of decreasing preference (based both on what I know, and what might be suitable for such puzzles):
- Java
- PHP
- BASIC
- Clojure
- Elixir
- CoffeeScript
- Dart
- Nim
- REBOL
- Forth
- F#
- Kotlin
- Octave
- Erlang
- Icon
- Eiffel
- Prolog
- CUDA
- GLSL
- TCL
- Smalltalk
- Julia
- AWK
- J
- APL
- Ada
- Algol
- 6502 assembly
Used:
- C (day 23)
- C++ (day 24)
- C# (day 17)
- COBOL (day 1)
- D (day 11)
- Fortran 90 (day 8)
- Go (day 25)
- Groovy (day 13)
- Haskell (day 16)
- Haxe (day 22)
- JavaScript (day 20)
- Lua (day 18)
- OCaml (day 12)
- OpenCL (day 14)
- Pascal (day 10)
- Pen and paper (and a calculator) (day 15)
- Perl (day 21)
- Python (day 5)
- R (day 6)
- Ruby (day 19)
- Rust (day 9)
- Scala (day 3)
- Scheme (day 2)
- Sh (bash and common shell utilities) (day 4)
- x86 assembly (day 7)
- Input should be read from stdin if at all possible. Otherwise, read from a
file named
input. - The input file must be read and parsed exactly as provided. No modifications are allowed.