Jean-Pierre wrote: > Maybe could we start to write perlgolftut.pod :) I have been thinking about this for the last few months. I never mentioned it because I think it may contradict one of the most basic principles of the game: research. Perl Golf has forced me to learn a lot about Perl. I probably learned as much about Perl in Andrew's 'Get Even' tournament than I did in reading 'Effective Perl Programming'. To become competitive you *must* study the solutions of past golfers. Maybe not the winners, because those are insanely difficult for a newbie to digest, but toward the middle of the pack there are many clever golf idioms you can pick up. More importantly, though, is the endless hours golfers must spend mining perldoc, particularly perlfunc, perlvar and perlrun. Playing a hard game of Perl Golf *forces* you to learn more about Perl.
Writing perlgolftut.pod sounds like fun, and if anyone wants to take it on, I'd gladly offer to help, but I think that it should not give too much away. Let the newbies dig the 'doc, just as all of us have had to do. Just my 2 cents, --Dave
