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1 point by jmatt 6035 days ago | link | parent

The problems include excellent descriptions and test cases.

Plus as a bonus you can code golf and try for the shortest solution. I haven't code golfed anything in arc, but I bet it'll do well.



1 point by lojic 6035 days ago | link

Hmm... I'd expect a language with lots of syntax and a large built-in library to do well.

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1 point by jmatt 6035 days ago | link

That is true for some of the problems but not all of them. For instance the choose challenge.

I also think it's part of PG's design goals to have a concise powerful language. (http://www.paulgraham.com/arcchallenge.html)

Even though code golf is program length instead of counting codetree nodes, it's a similar idea and provides interesting small problems to learn on.

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