Re: New Perl Quiz of the Week mailing list perl-qotw

En op zeventien oktober tweeduizendtwee sprak Andrew Savige:
> mjd has started a new perl-qotw mailing list:
>   http://archive.develooper.com/[email protected]/msg02705.html
> The quizzes on this list might provide some interesting golfing,
> but I'm unsure if golfers are welcome there

Repost the interesting questions to this list; possibly only after the
solutions have become public. (And perhaps mjd can use old golf holes as
quizes; I would be interested in some clean solutions to strtol.pl, for
example.)

> because I've already
> witnessed some sacrilegious remarks like: "I respect golfers an'
> all but I don't want to be one, thankyouverymuch" and "this is
> not a competition, it's fun". Yet where is the fun if you can't
> curse and swear at people you have never met as they pass you
> on the leaderboard?

It's possible to have fun with Perl outside of golfing (or so I've been
told). So what rule are they using to score their solutions?

> Oh, and I noticed quite a few ostentatious sigs there, shamelessly
> exceeding the accepted maximum of 4 lines.

Look! New sig quote!

(-ugene

-- 
... while I agree that golf is fun, interesting, and educational, I
think it has a very big problem: it encourages people to spend a lot of
effort in coming up with the shortest possible solution.
 -- /\\ark-_|ason |)ominus