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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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