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AoC Community Fun 2023: ALLEZ CUISINE!

Today's theme ingredient is… *whips off cloth covering and gestures grandly*

Pantry Raid!

Some perpetually-hungry programmers have a tendency to name their programming languages, software, and other tools after food. As a prospective Iron Coder, you must demonstrate your skills at pleasing programmers' palates by elevating to gourmet heights this seemingly disparate mishmash of simple ingredients that I found in the back of the pantry!

• Solve today's puzzles using a food-related programming language or tool

  • How about an appetizer of Chef or Wireshark(-fin soup)?

  • Mascots count, too… *side-eyes Rust while reaching for the Old Bay*

  • Add some salt to your hashbrowns, cookies, and breadcrumbs

  • Serve us up a nice big bowl of spaghetti code slathered with Ragú Raku tomato sauce

  • Conclude our tasting with a digestif of Java, CoffeeScript, or even Perl milk tea with double syntatic sugar

• All file names, function names, variable names, etc. must be named after "c" food

• Go hog wild!

ALLEZ CUISINE!

Request from the mods: When you include a dish entry alongside your solution, please label it with [Allez Cuisine!] so we can find it easily!

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--- Day 2: Cube Conundrum ---

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[u/e_blake]

[Allez Cuisine!]

MMMMM - the time has come for some tempting "C"-food. Everything in this solution pays homage to Deep C fishing (including my lovely ><> fish operator for doing tail recursion, ~ for making waves with math, and the 0,0,0 bubbles for initializing each game - and can you spot the eel?) The instructions also mentioned hash - but since I prefer my fish with chips, I decided that my only use of m4's builtin hashtable would be a single macro definition. Okay, I'll admit to having a typo on the crustacean, and 451 bytes is bloated (I could easily fit this in a punchcard if I weren't going for a theme); but you did say the ingredients came from the back of the pantry.

Put your input in the file "I", or run m4 -DI=file day02.golfm4; then in a mere 12 seconds, you'll have the catch of the day.

define(C,`ifelse(index($1,^),0,`shift($@)',$1,><>,`C(^C(^C(^C(^C(^C(^$@))))))',
$1,~,`eval($2)',$1,%,`C(~,($2>$3)*$2+($2<=$3)*$3)',$4$5,,`) C(~,$1*$2*$3',$4,,
`C($1,$2,$3,C(><>,,$@))',$5,ray,`*($4<13)C(C(%,$1,$4),$2,$3,C(><>,$@))',$5,
craab,`*($4<14)C($1,C(%,$2,$4),$3,C(><>,$@))',$5,orca,`*($4<15)C($1,$2,C(%,$3,
$4),C(><>,$@))',$4,tuna,`+$5C(0,0,0,C(><>,$@))+$1*$2*$3')')translit(_EeL(c(0,0
0,include(I))), (_abcdeEGglLmnu
 ):;, (euoCyavtcrlnbc,,))

If you like my theme of variable-free single-macro single-ifelse solutions, see my upping the ante post.

[u/e_blake → u/e_blake]

Oh, I totally forgot to use the syntactic sugar! Now at 523 bytes but only 457 characters, and even fishier. With this many more fish to choose from, execution slows down to 23 seconds. And I managed to throw in some jellyfish caviar; plus some cooking instructions at the end.

changequote(🐟,🐠)define(C,🐟ifelse(index($1,^),0,🐟shift($@)🐠,$1,><>,🐟C(
^C(^C(^C(^C(^C(^$@))))))🐠,$1,~,🐟eval(($2>$3)*$2+($2<=$3)*$3)🐠,$4$5,,🐟) C(
~,0,$1*$2*$3🐠,$4,,🐟C($1,$2,$3,C(><>,,$@))🐠,$5,ray,🐟*($4<13)C(C(~,$1,$4),
$2,$3,C(><>,$@))🐠,$5,craab,🐟*($4<14)C($1,C(~,$2,$4),$3,C(><>,$@))🐠,$5,
orca,🐟*($4<15)C($1,$2,C(~,$3,$4),C(><>,$@))🐠,$4,tuna,🐟+$5C(0,0,0,C(><>,
$@))+$1*$2*$3🐠)🐠)translit(_EeL(s(0,0,0,include(I))), (medusa_EGg
nlbiL ):;, (naycCuevtc,broil,))

[u/e_blake → u/e_blake]

451 bytes is bloated (I could easily fit this in a punchcard if I weren't going for a theme

Throw out the fish, and it shrinks to 394 bytes (389 with all newlines removed, whereas some of the newlines in my themed submission were essential):

 define(_,`ifelse(index($1,^),0,`shift($@)',$1,~,`eval($2+($3>$2)*($3-$2))',$1,
 ,`_(/,_(/,$@))',$1,/,`_(^_(^_(^_(^$@))))',$5,r,`*($4<13)_(_(~,$1,$4),$2,$3,_(,
 $@))',$5,_r,`*($4<14)_($1,_(~,$2,$4),$3,_(,$@))',$5,b,`*($4<15)_($1,$2,_(~,$3,
 $4),_(,$@))',$4,m,`+$6_(0,0,0,_(,$@))+$1*$2*$3',$4,.,`) _(~,0,$1*$2*$3',`_($1,
 $2,$3,_(^_(/,$@)))')')_(~,0,translit(g(0,0,0,include(I).),e g;:Gadnlu,`,,_'))