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Re:TDD did not live up to expectations by mjw1007 on Thursday June 29, 2017 @12:57PM (#14664811)
The 'Fiasco' is a bit of an unfair comparison, because Jeffries is deliberately providing a 'stream of consciousness' writeup while Norvig's is a cleaned-up version with false starts removed.

(You can tell Norvig's code worked differently at one point by looking at the return value of assign(), for example.)

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Re:TDD did not live up to expectations by willvarfar on Thursday June 29, 2017 @01:17PM (#14664989)
I would be staggered if Norvig's approach ever wasn't constraint propagation and backtracking.

Solving Sudoku is blindingly obvious even to mere mortals with even a iota of exposure to computer science and algorithms.

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Re:TDD did not live up to expectations by mjw1007 on Thursday June 29, 2017 @01:23PM (#14665050)
Sure, Norvig knew how to solve the problem from the start.

But that's another reason why the "TDD Sudoku Fiasco" blogpost isn't a terribly useful source of information (or, from another point of view, why it isn't a great way to persuade a TDD afficionado to change their mind).

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