Andrew writes: > The winner of this month's Tortoise-crawlin' Hall of > Shame award is Amir Karger. It seems that Perl's > Recursive Regex is rather slow.
I always knew that if I just golfed enough times, I would win something. I'm sure you can imagine that testing this sucker wasn't much fun. I think the winners need to give classes on identifying the right algorithms. I had the "inside out" algorithm for about five minutes before I decided it wasn't helping much. In retrospect, it turns out that for that solution you need to carefully mark when you've already RPN'd a region. On the other hand, it looks like a bunch of different Somewhat relatedly, I seem to be remarkably consistent in these contests. No matter which of the super golfers sit out in a particular month, I always end up between 11 and 20th rank overall. This time (when I swore I wouldn't play because I didn't have time -- so much for (Jewish) New Year resolutions.) I was 22, if you count beginners and teams. (I'm not sure whether the BOG does.) And my y index always hovers around -5. I can't decide if I should be happy that the ridiculous number of hours I put in let me finish respectably each time, or depressed that all those hours don't seem to be helping me at all. Speaking of all those hours, I've been wondering: do most of the other golfers spend a huge number of hours on each hole? If so, how many of you folks have life partners who misguidedly consider themselves, their children, and your eyeballs more important than Perl? Which reminds me of a Dilbert where his girlfriend asks him: "Dilbert, I feel like you like that computer more than me." "Nonsense. I do *not* like that computer more than you." "*That* computer?" (Dilbert thought bubble: "Please don't ask about the laptop...") You know how golf courses have tees for men that are a few yards further back than those for women? Maybe parents, students during finals, and anyone with a non-techie as a life partner should get handicaps of a few strokes. If I could just hack the code so that last names starting with K got an advantage... no, Rick will still beat me. Maybe Andrew, Ala and I could do something about "A" first names... but we still will never overtake Alain Dupuis. How depressing. Anyway, Andrew, I'm sure you wouldn't be mocking me so much if you knew that I gave myself two extra days to play to make up for Labor Day and the Jewish New Year and managed by Monday night to get a solution down to... 134. Hm, still one higher than your best. But I was close! I'll get you next time, Savige! In the spirit of Rocky and, um, all those other accomplished Philadelphians throughout history... -^m:r "Eye(ball) of the Karger" __________________________________________________ Yahoo! - We Remember 9-11: A tribute to the more than 3,000 lives lost http://dir.remember.yahoo.com/tribute
