> I would be interested in hearing from other contestants about how they
> think their programming language helped (or didn't help) them solve
> the problem. What language features were most helpful? Did anything
> particular get in the way? How much code did solutions take in other
> languages? Any smaller than 376 lines? Any teams more
> productive than
> 1 line/minute?
I'm not sure I can say much. 24 hrs didn't leave much time...
The problem was a good fit for compiler-writers, and was relatively
easy to factorise into independent parts we could tackle separately.
We didn't use laziness significantly. The purely-functional data structures
made it easy to 'back up' to the input of one pass if the output of
the pass looked wrong (when we ran it against some test data). Our
code amounted to some 1200 lines of Haskell, written by a team of 3.
If you want to see it you're more than welcome.
Simon
