Jared Updike wrote: > On 3/22/06, David F. Place <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > It solves > > sudoku puzzles. (What pleasure do people get by doing these in their > > heads?!?) > > > > They are probably asking the same question: why take hours to write a > program to do it when with my mad sudoku solving skills I can solve it > in X seconds? My roommate is like this.
I would say because they have chosen the wrong language for this problem :-) Solving Sudoku is a typical finite domain constraint problem. Thus, a language with constraint solving facilities like Curry (a combination of Haskell and constraint logic programming) is much better suited. Actually, I wrote a Sudoku solver in Curry and the actual code for the solver is 10 lines of code which is compact and well readable (if you are familiar with Haskell), see http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~curry/examples/CLP/sudoku.curry Regards, Michael _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
