Re: TPR0,5b: The winner is...

En op 12 oktober 2002 sprak Ton Hospel:
> Damn, i can't believe i missed that commify.

:-)

The commifying rule was not the success I had hoped for. I had hoped it would
bring out some alternative string-based methods, which do not have to
commify afterwards. Very few submissions actually did that; it was a big
surprise when we received Mtv's best try.

> And of course, 5 minutes after closing, the search program i have been
> running over the past day finally gave it's first useable hit, which
> combined with bob gives 111 (and one better probably exists, here I still
> need a fixup for 11):
> 
> #!perl -lp040
> $^+=$^%1e3*(9x(3*y/dbl//-4*/e/))||/te|/.vec(crypt(zrQ0W,$_),16,4)%10 .e./y/}$_=$^;{s/\B(?=(...)*$)/,/g
> 
> Of course it should probably be rejected, windows doesn't even have crypt.

Oh. I didn't realise that. That wouldn't be very nice for Karsten
Sperling.

I think I would have accepted this one. After all, I wrote the rules so I
don't have to follow them ;-)  Perhaps the portability rule is more
trouble than it's worth, and maybe next month's judges should consider
changing it.

(-ugene

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