Since it's the holiday season, someone recently asked me if I could
hack out a quick script to setup a "scecret santa" system. The basic
idea was this:
Feed a script a bunch of e-mail addresses. The script will assign
each person (address) the address of someone they should give a
gift to. Each person only gives one gift and receives one gift.
Of course, nobody will give a gift to themselves. (It should also
e-mail everyone automatically so that the person running the
script doesn't even know the outcome--but I didn't worry about
that part at all.)
What I managed to hack out was rather ugly. I'm unhappy with it.
It just didn't feel like the *right* solution, since it had some odd
logic in it. That fact that I was watching TV at the time probably
didn't help.
Anyone done this before and come up with something they think is
particularly elegant or clever?
Jeremy
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