Jonathan E. Paton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dave and co, > > Make sure that the TPR golf rules state that using automated > tools to evolve solutions is prohibited. Perhaps this is a > "fair means" clause. I'd hate to think that lazy sods could > use: > > tiger_pgolf.pl [1] > > when the rest of us are using documentation, source code and > black magic to shorten our code. And then when we protest > they reply "Hey, the rules don't stop me!".
Ah come on. If someone is clever enough to develop an automated system which helps them win, quite frankly they deserve it. This already almost happened, in fact, when someone tried to brute-force discovery of the "magic formula" for the secret number hole .... unsuccessfully, because to get anywhere this millenium they had to exclude most letters (specifically 'h', 'e', and 'x') from the character set used by the brute force search. I'd be amazed if anything any time soon will be able to replace the alie^Whuman thought processes which come up with those really genius solutions.
