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Advent of Code
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This repo contains my answers for Advent of Code.

The answers for each day are split into two modules. Those named 'dayX'
contain library code for implementing the problem solution, while those
named 'dayXm' contain command-line drivers for running the code in matching
'dayX' package.

Why?
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Primarily to learn Go. It's one thing to be familiar with a language, but
quite another to know it, and to know it requires you to write code in that
language. Advent of Code seemed like a reasonable way to at least learn the
parts of Go that don't require concurrency.

Do you happen to be doing anything silly?
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Why yes, I am! I'm coding all of this in an Android terminal emulator by the
name of Termux, which comes with its own APT-based package manager and repo.
So far, this all been unreasonably effective, and I have OpenSSH, nano, git,
and Go installed on my tablet through Termux.

The one difficulty I've run into is that neither Chrome nor Firefox provide a
way to download the test data. I could copy and paste it, but the paste buffer
seems to be a maximum of 4096 bytes, which is *tiny*.

And yes, I'm using nano, not my usual vim. Not because I particularly *like*
nano (I don't), but because vim isn't practical to use with my particular
Bluetooth keyboard. After some tweaking, I got nano to the point where it
isn't entirely useless, and at least it does syntax highlighting, and ^T can
be used to run gofmt, which is nice. I can't imagine why somebody would use
it for doing anything other than light editing if they had an alternative.