Now that I’ve wrapped up my series of posts on Infinite 2D Array (challenge, part
1, part 2, part 3), I’d like to tackle another topic related to competitive programming in Haskell. I won’t tell you what the topic is quite yet—for now, I challenge you to use Haskell to solve Letter Optimiztion! Feel free to post thoughts, questions, solutions, etc. in the comments (so don’t look at the comments if you don’t want spoilers!). In an upcoming post I will discuss my solution.
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Commenting here to say that I really appreciate your posts about competitive Haskell programming. I’ve done my fair share of Facebook Hacker Cups and Google Code Jams (in Haskell!) back in the day, but never got past the second round. These days, I’m not sure if I could even make it past the 0th round (whatever it’s called… I’m really out of it). For Infinite 2D Array, I’m happy to at least have gotten the maths right, though I used slow data structures, and no memoization.
Letter Optimization seems cool, and also appropriate to my other current hobby (Factorio… I’m sorry for mentioning it. It tends to suck people in.).
Thanks for leaving a comment! Glad to hear that you enjoy the posts. I’ve never gotten sucked into Factorio … yet. =)