What about making a category for the rest of us?
Us mortals. Us who write code like this:
foreach $person (@names) {
print "$person\n";
last if $person=~/Dr /;
}
I know most of you would probably use about 10 strokes for this(which is
pretty impressive since @names alone is 6 strokes :) ).
But, there are probably some like me, who started programming with Perl, and
aren't really ready for 'one-liner madness' yet. People like me doesn't
really fit into the scope of the beginners category. Trust me.
I could of course submit my solutions to the beginners category, but I don't
see any reason when I'm 200 strokes behind number 20 on the list.
It seems to me like the beginners list is scoped completely wrong. Or maybe
it is supposed to be scoped for beginner Perl Golfers, and not beginner Perl
programmers?
I am currently joining in on the Perl Golf fun, solving the holes you
provide. But, I haven't submitted any solutions yet. I don't see the point.
Is the official contest only for the truly elite, or could you make a
category for us truly beginners?
How much extra work would this cause for the referees? Shouldn't be to hard
to check 'our' straight forward code. And, how nice it would be if I could
for once understand the winning solution for a category. :)
Just a question. If not, I will probably start submitting in a couple of
years :)
Tor
