Re: Proposal : The First Monthly London.pm Programming Challenge

[Steve Keay]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 12:44:10PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> * Mark Fowler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> > 
> > > So here is the challenge. You have to write a Perl program that takes
> > > two arguments, the first is the start word and the second is the finish
> > > word. The Perl program will then use /usr/dict/words to find
> > > the shortest word chain between the words. The winning program
> > > will be the one that solves the problem the fastest over 3 different
> > > tests. There is a limit on the source code size of 10k, to prevent people
> > > preconfiguring datasets in the source.

Will length($word) == 4 ??