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From:
Ronald J Kimball
Date:
March 8, 2002 06:29
Subject:
Re: TPR1 post-mortem
Message ID:
20020308092939.B1569816@linguist.thayer.dartmouth.edu
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:33:26AM +0000, Piers Cawley wrote:
> 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.
>
Actually, I think it was this one from Greg Bacon, a month earlier:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=7imnti%24mjh%241%40info2.uah.edu
Ronald
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