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From:
Piers Cawley
Date:
March 8, 2002 02:40
Subject:
Re: TPR1 post-mortem
Message ID:
m2it879wnd.fsf@bofh.org.uk
Stephen Turner <sret1@ntlworld.com> writes:

> On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 Andrew.Savige@ir.com wrote:
>> 
>> Here are some statistics from the current series of games:
>> 
>> fwp Santa (head, tail, ...):    35 players on scoreboard
>> irc Christmas (human sort):     11 players on scoreboard
>> fwp Get Even:                   51 players on scoreboard
>> TPR Base 36:                    82 players on scoreboard
>> TPR Secret Number:             128 players on scoreboard
>> 
>
> This reminds me of something. I'd love to know more about the history of
> Perl golf. Who invented it, and so on. Does anyone know about this? (And if
> so, would it make a good article for TPR? :-)

Not sure who invented it, but this
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=7km3p5%24gm6%244%40info2.uah.edu&output=gplain
appears to be where the term was coined by Greg Bacon.

-- 
Piers

   "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in
    possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite."
         -- Jane Austen?


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