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Advent of OS/2
blog · git · desktop · images · contact 2024-12-25 Needless to say: This blog post contains spoilers. Advent of Code is an Advent calendar where you get a new programming puzzle every day.
A Java runtime and development system made by IBM from their own codebase that is fully compatible with but generally considerably faster than the original Sun Microsystems code. To get my puzzle input to OS/2, I made a tiny little Flask"app" that runs on Linux: I can open this HTML page in Netscape and I can grab my input.txt directly from the AoC website. Python, on the other hand, is a great language for Advent of Code, due to its many easy-to-use data structures and libraries (just think about day 23 and NetworkX, which basically gives you the solution right away).
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