How to Solve the Sudoku Puzzle with Programming(hillelwayne.com)
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How to Solve the Sudoku Puzzle with Programming
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/sudoku/
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> For a junior programmer, a programming language is something like Angular or Blockchain, while for a senior developer, a language is Ruby or Python.
What?
What?
Also:
> A data structure is a linked list, a red-black tree, or another data structure.
Seems we have a recursive definition here
> A data structure is a linked list, a red-black tree, or another data structure.
Seems we have a recursive definition here
It's a joke, like about half of the article. There's some non-humor value to the whole thing too, though, if you get far enough in.
I didn't realize it was a joke until I saw the author's newsletter about it today. Should've caught it earlier, though, given how different it is from his usual high quality.
https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/new-essay-and-t... seems to be the newsletter in question; I am not subscribed despite fitting the demographics on a number of axes.
Indeed. It's generally an interesting newsletter, covers some interesting topics.
For something equally as unreadable as J, try APL! http://dfns.dyalog.com/n_sudoku_bfs.htm
Norvigs Sudoku solver: https://norvig.com/sudoku.html
A sudoku solver can be written in just a few lines [1].
[1]: https://github.com/triska/clpfd/blob/master/sudoku.pl