On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 06:56:26AM -0500, Dave Hoover wrote: > Eugene wrote: > > > > Mickut is now 5th on the beginner's list, even though all the people > > > > behind him together have more than 10,000 times his Perl experience... > > > Is he the beginner who entered the course with only 4 hours of perl? > > Yes. Although his success can easily be explained: > > 1) He is an experienced C, sed, awk and Python hacker. > > 2) He is a Finn. > Mickut...extremely impressive showing thus far! I am interested in hearing > about your experience in this tournament. What is your opinion of Perl Golf > as a teaching method for beginner Perl hackers?
The challenges are fairly basic, so they are feasible for a beginner to handle. It's very encouraging to be able to come up with any kind of a functional solution to a problem in under 20 minutes using a new language. And since it's fairly easy to find out "better" ways to accomplish things using the man-pages, the web-tutorials and the million Perl-programs, the process practically fuels itself. Antti Kuntsi
