Stephen Turner schreef op 09 maart 2002: > Thanks for all the replies about the history of Perl golf. > One more question: when is the earliest example of a proper > organised competition, rather than just a challenge on a mailing > list or whatever? Are there any before the recent five?
The ill-fated Perl Golf Apocalypse at the 4th Perl Conference, Monterey, July 2000, was attempted but not actually run: http://www.sysarch.com/perl/golf/pga.html http://www.bumppo.net/lists/fun-with-perl/2000/07/msg00005.html http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?lastnode_id=864&node_id=21442 There were technical glitches (in front of a live audience including Larry Wall) and the event was cancelled, replaced by a Damian Conway talk. I found this reference on Perl Monks, May 24, 2001: http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?lastnode_id=864&node_id=82878 jmcnamara talks about a "leadership table" but I cannot find one in this thread. Does anyone know if there was one? I am interested in seeing the final scoreboard and solutions from this game. The ill-named Santa Clause Golf Apocalypse started on fwp mailing list on 2-Dec-2001. Here are some references to that game: http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00617.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00807.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00808.html I happened to be stuck on holiday in Melbourne, and started the game on a whim because I was bored. This was not my first attempt to run such a game, however. The first game I ran was during March 2001 at work. I had a couple of raw 20-year-old programmers who knew Java and C++ but not Perl. To encourage them to learn more Perl, I ran a golf game. For historical interest, I include a summary of this game below: -------------------------------------------------------------- In an epic duel, in which the lead changed hands no less than seven times, Ankur has emerged the winner. Eric 236 characters Ankur 226 Ankur 195 Eric 183 Ankur 182 Ankur 169 Ankur 157 Eric 154 Eric 145 Ankur 142 Eric 138 Ankur 136 Ankur's winning bid was posted 10 minutes before time. Eric showed supreme unorthodoxy in producing one solution that took 40 hours to run and in producing another bizarre solution that mangled Perl's run-time symbol table! Here is Ankur's winning solution: use File'Find; @ARGV||die"usage:$0 dir...\n"; -d||die"$_ $!"for@ARGV; find sub{$h{lc,}.=Cwd'cwd."/$_\n"if-f},@ARGV; print grep/\n./,values%h Here is Eric's runner-up solution: use File::Find; die"Usage:$0 dir...\n"if!map{-d||die"$! $_"}@ARGV; find sub{-f&&push@{$a{lc$_}},Cwd::cwd."/$_\n"},@ARGV; $#$_&&print@$_ for%a Alas, I have lost the original problem specification, but I remember it was a real-world program requested by our Windows SysAdmin to find all files on the disk with the same name. -------------------------------------------------------------- /-\ndrew
