[HN Gopher] Solving 100 Project Euler problems using 100 languages
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       Solving 100 Project Euler problems using 100 languages
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2025-01-16 21:59 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | tocs3 wrote:
       | I am interested in seeing Verilog used as one of the 100
       | languages.I have been wondering how it would be to use some sort
       | of hardware description language to solve some of (all?)the
       | problems. I worked thru the first half of "Nand to Tetris" [1]
       | and thought I might try working some of the problems with that.
       | 
       | [1] https://www.nand2tetris.org/
        
       | 7thaccount wrote:
       | I wonder which ones the author liked the most and which they
       | disliked the most. I didn't see any comments on that. If they're
       | on HN, it'd be cool to find out.
        
         | fuzzythinker wrote:
         | It's hard to form a good opinion of a language if the knowledge
         | of it is shallow, which I'm inclined to believe based on using
         | 100 languages. More interesting is why the author decide to use
         | a particular language for each problem.
        
         | middayc wrote:
         | The author wrote a short comment about each language in the
         | following blogposts:
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         | https://log.schemescape.com/posts/100-languages/index.html
        
       | nekitamo wrote:
       | 100 languages and yet not a single use of Rust. The omission
       | feels like a statement.
        
         | sramam wrote:
         | > using a different--and, ideally, new to me--language for each
         | problem
         | 
         | Perhaps this is why?
        
           | nekitamo wrote:
           | Ah I missed that part, thank you. The omission comment was
           | tongue-in-cheek on my part.
        
         | 420official wrote:
         | The author wanted to use languages that were new to them, if
         | the author has enough familiarity with rust to have a vendetta
         | then it probably isn't new to them.
        
         | NotAnOtter wrote:
         | It's hard to make me hate something I've never engaged with and
         | yet the Rust community has managed to do it with their
         | overzealous love.
         | 
         | It's a language guys. It won't give you a BJ
        
           | jtsiskin wrote:
           | To be more inclusive, consider using "it won't go down on
           | you" rather than "won't give you a BJ"
        
             | NotAnOtter wrote:
             | It won't give anyone a BJ. Independent of if they could
             | hypothetically receive one or not.
        
         | elpocko wrote:
         | No C++. No C#. No Java. No JS. No Lua. No Brainfuck.
        
       | omoikane wrote:
       | I like how the author used four different variants of BASIC.
        
       | hmng wrote:
       | From one of the blog posts:
       | 
       | > 8080 assembly (Altair 8800) > > First time I've heard of
       | binary-coded decimals
       | 
       | I'm really surprised with that, that someone with such broad
       | interests never heard of BCD. I mean, there's is always something
       | new to learn all the time, don't get me wrong, nothing to
       | criticize, just plain surprised. Wonder if that is just something
       | older people came across?
        
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