advent-of-code-2022 VS aoc2018

The github repo:

https://github.com/mattmight/advent-of-code-2022

You can get a taste here and decide if you want to go deeper or not - https://github.com/mattmight/advent-of-code-2022/tree/main/d...

Hah, as someone who has studied at University of Oslo, many of the lecturers make sure that Simula isn’t forgotten, by constantly reminding us that it was the first language with classes etc.

Therefore, a few years back I decided to learn it a bit (I borrowed a really old book from the library) and solved one of the Advent of Code puzzles in Simula: https://github.com/judofyr/aoc2018/blob/master/day3prog.sim

I was actually very surprised at how “modern” it felt. However, neither this code nor the article touches on the real cool parts of Simula: Simulations based on coroutines.

In 2018 I did the same thing, but I asked my friends for the list of languages (they didn’t know what it was for) so I ended up with far more esoteric languages: https://github.com/judofyr/aoc2018

In the end I lost the motivation once I only had the “regular” languages left. I was also solving them as quickly as possible (in Ruby) to get on the leaderboard so it was kinda boring to also solve them again later on.