Advent of Code is an online Advent calendar where you have to solve two small programming puzzles, of increasing difficulty, every day from December 1st to the 25th.
Last year, I solved most of the problems using Rust. The challenge for this year is to use a different programming language every day, based on Tsoding.
You can find my solutions on GitHub:
For the first 5 days I decided to use functional programming languages (mostly).
Day 1 - Haskell
Day 2 - Ruby
Day 3 - OCaml
Day 4 - Scala
Day 5 - Erlang
This first week turned out to be quite a challenge. I had never before programmed using Haskell, OCaml, Scala nor Erlang.
My solutions probably aren’t the most elegant ones out there, but I managed to get away without using the imperative features of these languages.
And I learned a few new things along the way, such as:
- List comprehension
- Partially applied functions
- Pattern matching
- Tail recursion
I’m looking forward to get better at functional programming languages in the future.
