(05-12-2021, 08:03 AM)Dworin Wrote: I have spent an unreasonable amount of time (I would definitely not get hired!), mainly because I had to figure out how to read data from a file into my variables. Should be quicker from here on out as the actual algoritms are straightforward.

Some languages may be harder to read and parse input. That's why most people use python. Also awk and perl are good languages to do parsing, especially to format the input into something that you can give to the actual program that solves the puzzle.