I'm not looking for hints or anything - just posting to let off some steam.
Damn PHP's string parsing, btw. Undefined $'s inside a double-quoted string only generate a notice -- the same error level that complains about:
arr[0] = 5; //where arr[0] does not exist
(and I could go on -- hah, it's PHP we're talking about -- but it's useful)
I need a better scripting language. Perl is not so web-friendly, and guaranteed to be unmaintainable the way I'd write it -- looks like some foreign shell script every time I look at it. (Tainted mode is nice, though) Python is nice, too; I've solved a few challenges with it - though, to be honest, they were mostly Python challenges or involved bignums which PHP doesn't seem to have installed the extension for. I might even get used to Python's [non-C] syntax some time, but it will take me ages to get used to the fact that it's whitespace-sensitive.
Not sure about Ruby - but I think I'd rather use LUA.
Man, did this post get out of hand.
Anyway, back to trying every possible complex solution until the simple one hits me in the face.
Posted by 
on 2007-11-13 09:11:32 
on 2007-11-13 15:24:19 
Posted by 
on 2007-11-21 17:56:28 
on 2007-11-15 20:58:33