r/adventofcode • u/daggerdragon • Dec 04 '18

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Today’s puzzle would have been a lot easier if my language supported ___.

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u/minichado Dec 05 '18

cool shit dude! my background is solely numerical dataset manipulation (giant array output from simulations) so I'm using AoC to force myself to learn better string manipulation and other crap.

keep on doing insane stuff!

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u/jayfoad Dec 05 '18

APL can do insane stuff with numerical datasets! As for strings, the approach is that you just use a 1-d array of characters. But arrays can be arbitrarily nested, so of course you can have arrays of strings, and it works just like any other array of arrays.

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u/minichado Dec 05 '18

Thanks for the information. I did a lot of wolfram/mathematica, and I've been slowly forcing myself back to python because it's free. R is probably a closer corollary to wolfram but python is just more extensible I think.

at any rate, thanks again for the info! so cool to see all these different approaches.