Comment by fn-mote

> The AoC guy loves recursive descent parsers way too much.

LOL!!

I agreed with a lot of what you wrote, but also a lot of us strive for beautiful solutions regardless of time/memory bounds.

In fact, I’m (kind of) tired of leetcode flagging me for one ultra special worst-case scenario. I enjoy writing something that looks good and enjoying the success.

(Not that it’s bad to find out I missed an optimization in the implementation, but… it feels like a lot of details sometimes.)