2011

March 13, 2011
in Programming, Haskell, Ruby
11 min read

Find Longest Substring Palindrome in Haskell

I stumbled upon a programming challenge a company was using for recruitment purposes and thought I’d create a Haskell solution as a learning exercise. The first problem was to find the longest palindrome embedded in a text string.

March 10, 2011
in Haskell, Programming
2 min read

Cracker Barrel Peg Board Puzzle in Haskell

I first wrote a program to solve the Cracker Barrel peg board puzzle (15 holes arranged in a triangle with 14 golf tees) many years ago as youth using the BASIC language. I wish I still had the source to that, because I’m pretty sure this Haskell version would kick its butt :)