On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:37:15AM -0500, Dave Hoover wrote:
> With the birth of your Perlgolf map, PGAS has now become a grandparent!
>
> [ PGAS slaps proud papa BoG on the back as they share a celebratory
> cigar... ]
I have to join my voice to the others to say how incredibly
nifty your map is, Sec. It's great fun to see that it's indeed true
that the wackiness of the sum vastly surpasses the sum of the
wackiness of its components.
And I can see from here the document that will try to
explain Perl Golf history and lore:
In the beginning, there was Perl, and Perl was good. But the
Script Kiddy in the Garden went to the hacker and said unto the
hacker 'lookee there, you could shave one character by removing
the semi-colon at the end'. And the hacker was tempted,
and felt. Thus Perl Golf was born. And the hacker was driven
out of the Garden and afflicted with all kind of curses like
exploding eyes and the such. And then began the begotting. Perl
Golf begat the Santa tournament, which in turn begat the PGAS,
which in turn begat the BoG, which in turn begat the Perlgolf Map.
Joy,
`/anick
--
# As seen on c.l.p.m!
sub output_fun { local $\ = "\n"; $_ = shift;
print and s#.( +).# $1 #g or substr($_,length()/2,1)=' ' while /\w/; }
output_fun 'Yet another Perl hacker.';
