En op 08 maart 2002 sprak Ronald J Kimball: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:33:26AM +0000, Piers Cawley wrote: > > Stephen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> > > >> Here are some statistics from the current series of games: > > >> > > >> fwp Santa (head, tail, ...): 35 players on scoreboard > > >> irc Christmas (human sort): 11 players on scoreboard > > >> fwp Get Even: 51 players on scoreboard > > >> TPR Base 36: 82 players on scoreboard > > >> TPR Secret Number: 128 players on scoreboard > > >> > > > > > > This reminds me of something. I'd love to know more about the history of > > > Perl golf. Who invented it, and so on. Does anyone know about this? (And if > > > so, would it make a good article for TPR? :-) > > > > Not sure who invented it, but this > > http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=7km3p5%24gm6%244%40info2.uah.edu&output=gplain > > appears to be where the term was coined by Greg Bacon. > > > > Actually, I think it was this one from Greg Bacon, a month earlier: > > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=7imnti%24mjh%241%40info2.uah.edu > > Ronald
That was probably the first occurrence of the term Perl golf, but the game itself is much older: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1990Mar20.203516.8429%40iwarp.intel.com "Okay, here's my entry for the shortest self-reproducing Perl program. Any takers for shorter? Any one liners?" http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1992Mar31.222415.19043%40uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU "A friend asked me to write the shortest script I could to collapse multiple blank lines down to one." http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1993Jul23.213258.2943%40clarinet.com Subject: 10 little indians in Perl? That last one was a real golf thread as seen also on FWP, with remarks like: "Much too much time on my hands..." and "reverse one of the ? tests and we chop off another one" Of course, some people can do a golf thread all by themselves in one post: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1991Apr29.072206.5621%40jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov Eugene
