En op 30 april 2002 sprak Jonathan E. Paton: > > I've gotten some ideas for golf holes. I decided that the refs > > are probably either tearing their hair out trying to find new > > ideas, > > I wrote to Eugene to say I had some ideas too, and he never got > back to me on that. This suggests he already has something.
I seem to remember I did write back, but I could be wrong. I indeed have something already. The contest starts in 100 minutes, so it's a bit late for me to start tearing my hair out. > > or have so many ideas they don't know what to do with them. > > I doubt they are short of ideas, but I guess instead of doing > the dull preperation for May 1st they are actually golfing as > many of the "discarded" suggestions as possible. Well, we have been preparing the TPR(0,3) contest, but it wasn't dull. > > If it's the first, I'd be willing to send them in for a nominal > > fee. > > Hold onto them... the "golfing" problem space has a constant size, > aparently. This means if they are good ideas, they should > eventually be worthy of a competition - simply because there isn't > any more "new" ideas. Before we run out of ideas, Perl 6 will be out. And then we'll just start all over again. By the way, Jonathan, can you tell me if the report I read in the paper this morning is true? It said that the British are losing their interest in golf! According to de Volkskrant: "Some of the causes of the diminishing interest are lack of time and emancipation. Women think that their husbands should spend their rare free time on their families, and that they should not stay be at the golf course all Sunday." Tell me this isn't true! Eugene -- Good things, when short, are twice as good. -- Baltasar Gracian
