“shouldn’t this have been published a few months ago?” yeah, probably. I even considered submitting it to the AoC contest. time is a real beast.
The title is clickbait. I did not design and implement a programming language for the sole or even primary purpose of leaderboarding on Advent of Code. It just turned out that the programming language I was working on fit the task remarkably well.
I can’t name just a single reason I started work on my language, Noulith, back in July 2022, but I think the biggest one was even more absurdly niche: I solve and write a lot of puzzlehunts, and I wanted a better programming language to use to search word lists for words satisfying unusual constraints, such as, “Find all ten-letter words that contain each of the letters A, B, and C exactly once and that have the ninth letter K.”1 I have a folder of ten-line scripts of this kind, mostly Python, and I thought there was surely a better way to do this. Not necessarily faster there is obvio
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podium at the state department and the pentagon before answering difficult questions. seemed that she was protected herself. it s the podium poke em. i can t guarantee anything immunizing her against the possibility that there is something there there and it will come out. so she can honestly say when that happens if it happens, i told you i couldn t guarantee it. the second part of her answer was very much distancing herself by saying the president asserts or the president said. you re seeing sarah do that much more often now. instead of stating policy positions or positions in general, in the first person singular, she is doing it in the third person. the president said. can i just say please. i m sorry, jim. sorry to barge in here. you know, this whole idea that we have to do this mystery hunt to see whether donald trump is a racist, hmm, he built his career on a racist campaign against the