Re: Hospelian Arabic to Roman Transform (HART) shortened

2013-01-02 Thread Yanick Champoux
On 12-12-25 02:04 AM, Andrew Savige wrote: Continuing the thread from Jan 2007 after more than five years, the famous "Hospelian Arabic to Roman Transform" aka HART, as played by Ton in the Fonality Christmas golf challenge, has been shortened by one stroke by primo. Holy schmolee. I now have

Re: Another one-liner?

2009-06-25 Thread yanick
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 06:59:41PM +0200, Eirik Berg Hanssen wrote: > yan...@babyl.dyndns.org writes: > > I'm probably overlooking something silly, but > > > > perl -O0 -pe's/.{65535,}//' > > > > ? > > Newlines. Arrgh. I knew I was forgetting something. Darn, foiled

Re: Another one-liner?

2009-06-24 Thread yanick
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 04:26:05PM +0100, Jasper wrote: > 2009/6/24 Daniel Tiefnig : > > > > ?perl -00 -ne'/.{65535}/||print' > > > > of course becomes > > perl -00 -pe'$_ x=!/.{65535}/' I'm probably overlooking something silly, but perl -O0 -pe's/.{65535,}//'

Re: New series of articles on Code Golf

2009-05-10 Thread Yanick Champoux
vered 'www.googlism.com', way back in 2002? And how /\ndrew tried my name on it, and saw that I was described by a rather boring 'Yanick Champoux is currently m'? And how he decided to take matters in his own hands and, ahhh..., spiffy up things? Well, to this very day, so

Re: New Golf

2007-02-13 Thread Yanick Champoux
On Sunday 11 February 2007 14:17, Andrew Savige wrote: > `/anick wrote: > > Ooooh... A Roman-to-decimal rehash of the Fonality tournament. > > Aah.. Emm... Do you mind if we pursue this conversation later on? > > I suddenly remember I have things to do... > > Thanks `/ for bringing that to my atten

Re: New Golf

2007-02-04 Thread Yanick Champoux
On Saturday 03 February 2007 21:22, Andrew Savige wrote: > --- ô Great Ton wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > > > "Robin Houston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On the subject of new golf, I wonder if you golfers all know about > >> http://codegolf.com? > >> > >> The rules are no

Re: simple golf for fun

2007-01-16 Thread Yanick Champoux
Phil Carmody said: > This is a real world task which can be solved in a couple of lines. > Which makes me think that you guys can do it in about half a line! Not exactly half a line, but still not too bad: #!perl -lp $p=~s/\B|\b/(.)?/g;/^$p$/; $p=$_;$_=(@m=grep/./,@-)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:die"brok

Re: simple golf for fun

2007-01-16 Thread Yanick Champoux
Phil Carmody said: > This is a real world task which can be solved in a couple of lines. > Which makes me think that you guys can do it in about half a line!

Re: New Golf

2007-01-15 Thread Yanick Champoux
On Sunday 14 January 2007 11:31, Ton Hospel wrote: > > Super trivial Magoo on yanicks solution, good for one T-shirt: > > > > =~/$&/ can be written as =~$& > > Less Magoo: > > #!perl -lp040 > $s=/m/ > if/u/;($y=I1V5X10L50C100D500M1000IV4IX9XL40XC90CD400CM900)=~chop,$t+=$s^"$; >">($;=$')?-$;:$;while

Re: New Golf

2007-01-14 Thread Yanick Champoux
On Saturday 13 January 2007 21:20, Andrew Savige wrote: > Can anyone else see anything Mr Magoo-like in m.wrenn's or > `/anick's solutions? Just to rub it in, you see. :-) You, my friend, are a very evil, very cruel man. > I had toyed with Util's approach during > the game, but kept flog

Re: New Golf

2007-01-03 Thread Yanick Champoux
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 22:32, Michael Wrenn wrote: > Yanick Champoux wrote: > > Stefan `Sec` Zehl said: > >> No. Look at \'anick for example (poor \'anick :) > > May I be the first to second that! > > poor, poor \'anick! Now, now, now. I

Re: New Golf

2007-01-03 Thread Yanick Champoux
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 05:42, Andrew Savige wrote: > Yes, doing battle with `/anick is perhaps the pinnacle of any golfer's > career. Flattering, but I have to disagree. It's akin to say that the most breath-taking act at the circus is the clown intermission. But still, I like to

Re: New Golf

2007-01-02 Thread Yanick Champoux
Stefan `Sec` Zehl said: > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 10:13 +, Jasper wrote: >> Now, as an afterthought, am I the only person to have missed the >> perlgolf history book, and the only person who submitted a score that >> didn't have something like : $;.=5x$_*8%29628 > > No. Look at \'anick for ex

Re: Python Golf Tournaments

2006-02-15 Thread Yanick Champoux
Eugene van der Pijll wrote: * After that, people started to enjoy it tremendously... proving that under the glossy shiny pythony outside, all real programmers are perl golfers on the inside really. "Within each and every programmer is a Perl golfer who's trying to curl up tighter sti

Re: lost ...?

2006-01-19 Thread Yanick Champoux
Stephen Turner wrote: Here's my new diversion: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/nathan/ Awww... What an adorable script kiddie! Heh. I think the occasion calls for pulling my old 'My Father, the Hacker' poem out of the mothballs: http://babyl.dyndns.org/yaph/poems/diaper Joy, `/ani

Re: PBP

2006-01-19 Thread Yanick Champoux
Daniel Tiefnig wrote: Seriously, I consider PbP to be the best programming investment I did this year. Considering we've only 19th of January now, I'm not very surprised. :o) I would argue it's also the second-best Perl book I ever bought after the Camel. Nevermind that my Perl libr

Re: PBP

2006-01-19 Thread Yanick Champoux
On January 19, 2006 03:09 pm, Michael W Thelen wrote: > Joe Landman wrote: > > Golfers don't indent > > orusespaces;-) Tsk, you mean: orusesspaces;) Any golfer worth his/her salt knows that you can safely remove the nose of a smiley, thus shaving a stroke. Or, alternatively and even shorter:

Re: PBP (was: lost ...?)

2006-01-19 Thread Yanick Champoux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > `/anick wrote: >>... Well, except if reading Conway's excellent "Perl's Best >> Practices" and realizing I'm breaking every single of his 256 >> commandments on a daily basis count as learning. In which case I do. > > Perhaps OT but having finished the PBP not too long

Re: lost ...?

2006-01-18 Thread Yanick Champoux
Eugene van der Pijll wrote: Neko (Simone Demmel) schreef: I can't see any activity since some time here. Have I lost you? Have you stopped playing? No, you haven't lost us, there just hasn't been much golfing lately. In my case, it's the interference of real life; meaning work, study,

Re: [Perlwar] Samples?

2005-10-18 Thread Yanick Champoux
On October 18, 2005 08:22 am, Bruce Preston wrote: > Actually, I'm just trying to work out why: > >'^'.(grep$_[$_],[EMAIL PROTECTED])[0] > > ..wouldn't always win if it got executed first. Well, it will always p0wn the closest agent, but as long as that second agent is owned by you, the firs

Re: PerlWar

2005-10-18 Thread Yanick Champoux
On October 18, 2005 08:22 am, Yanick Champoux wrote: > password: osmazome Heeh... Silly reply-to-mailing-list option. Sorry guys. (and yeah, the password is already changed. No use in trying it. ;-P ) Joy, `/anick

Re: PerlWar

2005-10-18 Thread Yanick Champoux
On October 17, 2005 11:55 am, Paul Baker wrote: > Is PerlWar alpha working? In a very alpha way, it does. :-) > How can I play? I want to play! I tried > uploading an agent and I'm not sure if it worked. Looks like the game > is stuck on iteration 3. codename: paul password: osmazome For

Re: [ANNOUNCE] first release of PerlWar (and request for beta testers)

2005-10-17 Thread Yanick Champoux
Well, I'll be darned. Some people actually volunteered. :-) So far, I have 7 volunteers to play in the first beta game, which should already be enough to have an unhealthy amount of fun (although it's not too late to jump on the bandwagon). If everything goes well, the game should kick off t

[ANNOUNCE] first release of PerlWar (and request for beta testers)

2005-10-17 Thread Yanick Champoux
After way too long in the making, I am proud to announce that a first beta of Perlwar is finally available to the public. "Glad to hear that. But what is PerlWar?" PerlWar is loosely inspired by the classic Corewar game. In this game, players pit snippets of Perl code (called 'agents') agains

[ANNOUNCE] first release of PerlWar (and request for beta testers)

2005-10-16 Thread Yanick Champoux
After way too long in the making, I am proud to announce that a first beta of Perlwar is finally available to the public. "Glad to hear that. But what is PerlWar?" PerlWar is loosely inspired by the classic Corewar game. In this game, players pit snippets of Perl code (called 'agents') agains

Re: Perl golf article at Perl Monks

2005-03-11 Thread Yanick Champoux
Ala Qumsieh wrote: --- Jasper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nice. Perhaps it'll prompt a new compo soon :) Ahhh .. how I long for the good old days. So do I, so do I. In fact, as nostalgia settles in, I've found myself toying more and more these days with a type of competition that wo

Re: golfers at YAPC::Europe 2004

2004-09-20 Thread Yanick
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 12:04:30PM +0100, Jasper wrote: > When I told Honza that for a while he was > my golfing arch-nemesis he had no idea what I was talking about. In > fact he seemed oblivious to my existence. How humiliating. :) Ooooh... That smarts. I hope you reacted by lightly, but

Re: Goldbach

2003-08-30 Thread Yanick
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:23:15AM -0600, Michael W Thelen wrote: > Autumn (autumn.kietdoke.com) loves golfing, though she's yet to come up with a valid > solution. Her try on the Goldbach hole was: > > #!perl > Sw4!4aw6sQx > Uftk 6i5e tuj3swsc Jm > > (I added the shebang for her.) Close, but

Re: Goldbach

2003-08-29 Thread Yanick
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 08:14:13PM -0700, Amir Karger wrote: > Another golf already? I can't take it! Btw, I think my last showing was > pretty respectable considering we had a baby the Sunday the contest > started! Congrats! Any chance of having the little tike/tikess join the Junior Gol

Re: Golfing Internet worms

2003-01-27 Thread Yanick
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 08:59:50PM -0800, Mike Erickson wrote: > * Yanick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I remember that some time ago (3 years?), Abigail posted a Perl > > worm to clpm. Anyone has a copy of that thing? It would be amusing > > to try to golf /that/ one. &

Re: Golfing Internet worms

2003-01-26 Thread Yanick
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 02:34:57PM +0100, Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat wrote: > Golf is not practised only in Perl circles. It has become the pastime > of virus and worm writers, too: I remember that some time ago (3 years?), Abigail posted a Perl worm to clpm. Anyone has a copy of that thing? I

Re: Perl vs. C?

2003-01-22 Thread Yanick
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 08:35:58PM -0800, Rick Klement wrote: > perl -e's//_\b/;$_^=p while sleep print" oo\n<|>\n_|"x!$|++,$_' perl -e'$\="_\b";$\^=p while sleep print" oo\n<|>\n_|"x!$|++' Joy, `/. -- "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." - Isaac

Re: Perl vs. C?

2003-01-21 Thread Yanick
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:48:51PM -0500, Yanick wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:39:18PM -0500, Yanick wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:08:23AM +, Ian Phillipps wrote: > > > The following was distributed a while ago as "footguy.c". > > > Can any g

Re: Perl vs. C?

2003-01-21 Thread Yanick
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:39:18PM -0500, Yanick wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:08:23AM +, Ian Phillipps wrote: > > The following was distributed a while ago as "footguy.c". > > Can any golfers duplicate its function in perl using fewer characters? > > &g

Re: Perl vs. C?

2003-01-21 Thread Yanick
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:08:23AM +, Ian Phillipps wrote: > The following was distributed a while ago as "footguy.c". > Can any golfers duplicate its function in perl using fewer characters? > > There are a couple of literal ^G in here: > > main(l){main(8^putchar(l++["xx77Rd$fR$wPP"]^88)?l

Re: TPR golf

2002-12-12 Thread Yanick
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 01:50:19PM +0100, Terje Kristensen wrote: > Dec 12th today and no sign of golf. the pm of the last golf has still no link from >the frontpage. Ooops. My bad. The post-mortem's linked now. > Have ppl gotten tired of golfing, and have other priorities in life? This

Re: The monthly golf *IS* happening

2002-11-19 Thread Yanick
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 07:00:24PM +0100, Eugene van der Pijll wrote: > En op 18 november 2002 sprak Yanick: > No no no, if Benoit wants to make human sacrifices, the following > individuals are logical choices: Rick, Stephen, Jasper, Jeff, Michael > Rybakin, Petri, Alexey, Terje, Ch

Re: The monthly golf *IS* happening

2002-11-18 Thread Yanick
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 09:05:05PM +0100, Benoît Chauvet wrote: > |3enoît (praying the dark gods and making human sacrifices to keep its > actual rank !) Virgin sacrifice only, please. And of the female persuasion, if you can. Joy, `/anirlathotep, PGAS-man of the Refs That Should Not Be

Sourceforge outage

2002-11-12 Thread Yanick
The Sourceforge website warns us that The SourceForge.net web site will be offline on 2002-11-14 starting at 16:00 (Pacific) for 3 hours. The hosts used to provide these services will be offline (for a relocation of hardware) during this outage. This might, or might not affect the Perlgolf site.

Re: [November golf] Referees Sought

2002-11-09 Thread Yanick
questions are: > - is this ok for anybody ? Does especially Yanick prefer to >run this one with his idea ? > - Who controls uploading challenges and passing access rights to >PGAS nowadays ? > - Referee candidates, please send me mail saying you want to referee >

A new golfer has stepped unto the green

2002-11-04 Thread Yanick
I've just been warned that one more golfer is now waiting for this month's course. Indeed, a new golfer has registered herself (well, okay, so I helped a wee bit) in the BoG: http://babyl.dyndns.org/golf/book.xml?style=golfer;id=1102002 Golfers of all countries, beware. She migh

Re: Perl Golf and 1974

2002-10-09 Thread Yanick
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 06:53:46PM +0100, Stephen Turner wrote: > > Is there really anything more to say? > > When is the year of the flaming ostrich? 2017. Joy, `/anick -- If you don't succeed on the first shot, don't give up. Switch to explosive rounds.-- Naborale (22/1/2002)

Perl Golf and 1974

2002-10-09 Thread Yanick
inese astrology, one would find out that 1974 is the year of the Tiger, and that it's under the auspice of the Wood element. Is there really anything more to say? `/anick -- eval" use 'that poor Yanick' "; print map{ (sort keys %{{ map({$_=>1}split'',$@) }})[hex

Re: Java v Perl dashing golf

2002-09-17 Thread Yanick
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 11:14:33AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > En op 18 september 2002 sprak `/anick: > > /^192\.(?:9|18|29)\./||/\.(?:gif|GIF|jpg|JPG|css|CSS) HTTP/ or print > > > > is still a wee bit faster. > > BTW, on my (perhaps unrepresentative) 17 MB test file on Windows, > `/ani

Re: Java v Perl dashing golf

2002-09-17 Thread Yanick
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 12:22:48PM -0500, Chris Dolan wrote: > Yanick wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 12:09:18AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > /^192\.(?:9|18|29)\./||/\.(gif|jpg|css|GIF|JPG|CSS) HTTP/ or print > > Also, "?:" is not really needed. We

Re: Java v Perl dashing golf

2002-09-17 Thread Yanick
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 12:09:18AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have not seriously tried the 100 meter dash, but this > one should be a little faster: > > #!perl -n > /^192\.(?:9|18|29)\./||/(?i:gif|jpg|css) HTTP/ or print /^192\.(?:9|18|29)\./||/(gif|jpg|css|GIF|JPG|CSS) HTTP/ or print

Re: A tortoise-rambling email

2002-09-12 Thread Yanick
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:56:29PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Unlike the floridly decorated yet macho psychoanalyst Dr Shampoo, Macho? Me? Ô.- > I am not professionally qualified in this area. Yet I firmly > believe that spending more time than you can afford on golf > is classic

Re: A tortoise-rambling email

2002-09-12 Thread Yanick
nspired the following little poem (it passes perl -c, but doesn't do anything exciting): #!perl # My Father, the Hacker v1.0 # by Yanick Champoux (12/9/2002) use Data::Dumper; $diaper = new Data::Dumper ([],[]); # welcome to fatherhood, buddy localtime => 'after supper';

Re: Career Money Leaders Update

2002-09-08 Thread Yanick
> Also of note this month is the changing of the guard in Canadian > golf, with Ala taking over as the pre-eminent Canuck: > > 21 ( 22) Ala Qumsieh $ 447,200.00 (9/11) > 22 ( 21) Yanick Champoux $ 441,600.00 (8/11)

Re: Some random reflections on tpr05a + New name

2002-09-08 Thread Yanick
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 08:43:14AM -0500, Dave Hoover wrote: > Anyway, since we no longer have any official affiliation with TPR, we can > definitely feel free to change the name of the monthly Perl Golf > tournaments. My first inclination is to allow each month's set of referees > to come up wit

Re: New leader in tpr(0, 5a)

2002-09-05 Thread Yanick
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 06:26:11PM -0400, Yanick wrote: > Will the wall of 100 be breached? Of course, 5 minutes after I sent this, the wall became a piñata meeting the business end of (-ugène's golf club, As the pieces of the oblitered piñata falls all around, I can'

Re: New leader in tpr(0, 5a)

2002-09-05 Thread Yanick
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 12:55:50AM +0300, Juho Snellman wrote: > With 55 hours to go, Eugene has grabbed the lead from Rick with > a 102.26. Fifty-five hours, and the question hangs in the air like a bloated mosquito in search of a last meal: Will the wall of 100 be breached? My

Re: Michael Thelen is my hero

2002-09-05 Thread Yanick
considering the number of ostriches around, the penalty sandbox is not a place where you want to be...) `/anick -- eval" use 'that poor Yanick' "; print map{ (sort keys %{{ map({$_=>1}split'',$@) }})[hex] } qw/8 b 15 1 9 10 11 15 c b 13 1 12 b 13 f 1 c 9 a e b 13 0/;

Re: First posts of some famous golfers

2002-08-28 Thread Yanick
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 12:07:10AM +0200, Eugene van der Pijll wrote: > > `/anick, who didn't see London, but saw France, > > and, yes, catched of Utrecht a glance > > If I had known you were coming this way, I'd have closed the windows and > locked the doors. A trio of porcin

Re: First posts of some famous golfers

2002-08-27 Thread Yanick
> En op 27 augustus 2002 sprak Keith Ivey: > > 1999-05-21: Yanick Champoux, comp.lang.perl.misc, helping > > someone with while loops, and sporting a netiquette- > > defyingly ostentatious sig > > > http://groups.google.com/group

Re: First posts of some famous golfers

2002-08-26 Thread Yanick
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:31:58AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 04-mei-2000, Ala Qumsieh, golf (7 stroke improvement without > spending much time on it) > http://bumppo.net/lists/fun-with-perl/2000/05/msg00070.html > > I think that makes you the pre-eminent Ca

Re: Back in the saddle

2002-08-02 Thread Yanick
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 03:11:13PM +0100, Stephen Turner wrote: > On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Stephen Turner wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Yanick wrote: > > > > > > Sir, consider fiery furry (or feathered, I have to check what's left > > > in term of bio-am

Re: Back in the saddle

2002-08-02 Thread Yanick
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 02:41:38PM +0200, F. Xavier Noria wrote: > "Dave Hoover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : I seem to have an uncanny knack for getting a bunch of entries accepted, > : then hours later watching them all be invalidated. > > It was my fault, I am sorry. Sir, consider f

Re: Leaderboard request was Re: tpr04c started

2002-08-01 Thread Yanick
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 12:22:12PM +, Ton Hospel wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Greg Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Seem to remember that this may have been discussed before, but I think it would > > be nice if the leaderboard could show the top scores per hole. Note t

Re: Uncle Sam wants YOU as referee

2002-07-22 Thread Yanick
On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 04:19:53PM +, Ton Hospel wrote: > Repeated call for volunteers: still only one firm confirmation > and one tentative referee. Please initiate simultanous panic. Talking of panic: the Big Book of Useless But Strangely Amusing Statistics will close the 4th of Au

Y-index calculation

2002-07-09 Thread Yanick
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 06:55:21AM -0500, Dave Hoover wrote: > I'd like to mention that alien-in-training, Markko Nippula, who > hasn't finished with anything worse than a -6 Y-index since TPR(0,1) has a > Y-index of 143. That is the downfall of the Y-index, if your first outing > is bad, you're

Re: My solution annotated

2002-07-08 Thread Yanick
On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 05:45:16PM +0100, Stephen Turner wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Eugene van der Pijll wrote: > > The competent programmer [...] > > avoids clever tricks like the > > plague. -- (-dsger |)ijkstra > > The line break here made me read this as "avoids clever tricks, for example >

Re: Dear Poor `/anick

2002-07-08 Thread Yanick
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 11:26:14AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Poor `/anick, > Our last three duels show a remarkable similarity: > /-\ndrew 75.41 > `/anick76.46 > > `/anick 190.21 > /-\ndrew 191.21 > > /-\ndrew 117.57 > `/anick 118.55 >

Re: Stephen and Keith staging another epic duel

2002-07-08 Thread Yanick
On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 08:21:43PM -0400, Keith C. Ivey wrote: > Fortunately I didn't wait until the last minute to post it, > though. My apartment building was evacuated about 10:45 (02:45 > UTC) because of a fire -- in the opposite wing, fortunately. I > think Yanick's possum must have been

Re: Career Money Leaders Update

2002-07-08 Thread Yanick
On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 11:18:21PM +0200, Steffen Mueller wrote: > Finally, I'd like to thank all golfers for making the job worthwhile be > submitting myriads of entertainingly different solutions! And, it goes without saying, we golfers thank the refs for their dedication and, yes, cour

Re: Career Money Leaders Update

2002-07-08 Thread Yanick
On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 01:54:27PM -0500, Dave Hoover wrote: > So when do we want to have the next tournament? The next issue of > The Perl Review doesn't come out until September 1. Do we want to > wait until then? Or are we ready for another in August? My heart goes for August, ev

Re: Hurrah! /-\ is a nostril ahead of `/ (yet again)

2002-07-07 Thread Yanick
On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 09:22:11AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > En op 9 juli 2002 sprak /-\: > > Stop Press. Latest Leaderboard: > > /-\ndrew 143.46 > > `/anick143.53 > > > > ^.^ :))) > > Stop Press. > > `/anick118.55 > /-\ndrew 118.57 > > `/ leads /-\ by a nostril (yet again).

Re: Only (more or less) 12 hours left...

2002-07-07 Thread Yanick
On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 06:03:10PM +0100, Stephen Turner wrote: > On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Yanick wrote: > > Eugène is actually a whole five strokes behind. > > I expect Eugene has 63, but he's sitting on it until 1 minute before the > deadline so as not to spur Ton into gre

Only (more or less) 12 hours left...

2002-07-07 Thread Yanick
Let's see. /-\ndrew is silently padding closer and closer, and I fear he's about to leap ahead of me. |3en hasn't bulged from his position for the longuest time, sign that he's scheming a spectacular last minute dash -- or that his brain had fried for good. Sec, alas, is taunting us all from his p

Re: Evangelizing Perl Golf

2002-07-04 Thread Yanick
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 09:25:54PM -0400, Keith C. Ivey wrote: > So there are others with the name Champoux? It always sounded > a bit fake to me. Ouch. :) Well, believe it or not, however similiar it is to a B-movie mad scientist's name, Champoux /is/ my real name.

Re: Hurrah! /-\ is a nostril ahead of `/ (yet again)

2002-07-03 Thread Yanick
On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 10:07:36AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Some of us have just decided we don't have the time to spend on these more > difficult problems. Ask yourself: what is more shameful? Not to participate, or to participate and get a truly horrendous score? Well

Re: Hurrah! /-\ is a nostril ahead of `/ (yet again)

2002-07-03 Thread Yanick
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 10:08:52PM +0200, Steffen Mueller wrote: > "Yanick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb... > > On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 05:57:49PM +0200, Benoît Chauvet wrote: > > > "Steffen Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit dans le message de

Re: Evangelizing Perl Golf

2002-07-03 Thread Yanick
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 10:07:52AM -0600, Michael W Thelen wrote: > Advance warning: just in case you see another Thelen or another Champoux > popping up on the leaderboard, don't be alarmed... I've been evangelizing about > Perl Golf and I think I've convinced my wife, Kristen (also a programmer.

Re: Hurrah! /-\ is a nostril ahead of `/ (yet again)

2002-07-03 Thread Yanick
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 06:58:56PM +0200, Stefan `Sec` Zehl wrote: > On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 11:31:59AM -0400, Yanick wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 07:58:10AM -0700, Phil Carmody wrote: > > > Note - I think I should be sandtrapped presently as _none_ of my > > > s

Re: Hurrah! /-\ is a nostril ahead of `/ (yet again)

2002-07-03 Thread Yanick
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 05:57:49PM +0200, Benoît Chauvet wrote: > "Steffen Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit dans le message de news: > > BoB's dead. He was trampled by an alien horde. > > "BoB's dead, baby... Bob's dead..." > > Isn't this a "Pulp fiction" quote ? The worst is, I was

Re: Hurrah! /-\ is a nostril ahead of `/ (yet again)

2002-07-03 Thread Yanick
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 07:58:10AM -0700, Phil Carmody wrote: > Note - I think I should be sandtrapped presently as _none_ of my > solutions work with > 0 1 > 1 2 > 2 3 Ah, the test case for which I have cursed the referees' name for one hundred and twenty-seven generations (inclusive).

Re: Hurrah! /-\ is a nostril ahead of `/ (yet again)

2002-07-03 Thread Yanick
On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 12:50:29AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Stop Press. Latest Leaderboard: > /-\ndrew 143.46 > `/anick143.53 *ahem* `/anick 142.51 (and if you just knew the atrocities I commited to shave that single stroke...) `/. -- If you don't succeed o

Re: TPR04b: which 45 chars should be shaved off?

2002-07-02 Thread Yanick
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 11:31:45AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > En op 03 juli 2002 sprak Sec: > > And with Yanick idling along near the bottom, I'm really afraid of his > > evil plans to submit that one-char-less-than-mine solution five minutes > > before the ga

Leaderboard access

2002-07-01 Thread Yanick
My site has been updated for tpr(0,4b). Good ol' html interface: http://babyl.dyndns.org/golf/course.epl?course_id=5 Dial-a-leaderboard: 1-800-303-9987 (pin: 852211) Joy, `/anick -- Non-unadysfunctional: a. Works, but in mysterious ways. - Naborale (7/11/2001)

Re: midigolf

2002-06-27 Thread Yanick
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 10:24:56AM +0200, Benoît Chauvet wrote: > Leaderboard > ton- 55 > (...) > yanick 186 > > Hey, guys : wake-up ! > There's a chance to beat `/anick if he doesn't score better this time ! > (But not Ton I'm afraid,

Re: midigolf

2002-06-26 Thread Yanick
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 08:54:04AM -0700, Rick Klement wrote: > > this being said: the specs say that each line has > > a length of 10 chars, which the test program doesn't > > follow. Which has higher precedence? > > Each line matches /^[ x]{10}\n\z/, so it's 10 chars plus the new line.

Re: midigolf

2002-06-26 Thread Yanick
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 04:21:49PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > And for the people who really can't stop: > > http://www.xs4all.nl/~thospel/golf/midigolf1.html first of all: damn you, damn you to hell. :) this being said: the specs say that each line has a length of 10 char

Re: July golf tournament

2002-06-25 Thread Yanick
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:35:05AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > En op 24 juni 2002 sprak `/anick: > > The Threat, part II: if there's no-one else who step forward, > > I'm gladly proposing myself as wearer of the stripped shirt... > ^^ >

Re: ircnet minigolf2

2002-06-24 Thread Yanick
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 10:49:21AM -0400, Amir Karger wrote: > -p $_=(sort{1x$a^1x$_-1x$b^1x$_}<>)[0] -p ($_)=sort{1x$a^1x$_-1x$b^1x$_}<> Joy, `/. -- So far we haven't seen a single good-looking pair of legs... a single sequin-encrusted watchmacallit... no firm, rounded breasts! This show

Re: July golf tournament

2002-06-23 Thread Yanick
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 04:56:26PM -0700, Rick Klement wrote: > > The July golf tournament could use some volunteer referees. There might > > be some slight delay in accepting solutions if I'm the only one :) > > Since a week has gone by, let me try some less subtle techniques: > > The Threat:

Re: perl golf

2002-06-13 Thread Yanick
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 06:59:25PM +0200, Eugene van der Pijll wrote: > En op 13 juni 2002 sprak Yanick: > > But, lo and behold, the bearded authority of the original > > Mailing List came unto the cavorting crowd and said > > Hmmm. The only authority of the mail

Re: perl golf

2002-06-13 Thread Yanick
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 09:17:36AM -0700, Phil Carmody wrote: > Excuse my ignorance, total newbie... > > What is the relation between: > a) this list > b) the perl golf tournament that just had the vowels/letters hole > c) the perl golf tournament that currently is doing hamming codes > d) the pe

Re: (TPR04)Oh, my achin' eyeballs^H

2002-06-11 Thread Yanick
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 09:38:29AM -0600, Michael W Thelen wrote: > Yes, even I had my private hopes of beating > him, but alas, it was not to be. Nothing personal, I just know that `/anick is > good at Perl golf and I'm not quite, yet. :-) Did I already mentioned I'm beginning to feel l

Re: (TPR04)Oh, my achin' eyeballs^H

2002-06-11 Thread Yanick
On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 02:14:19PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > `/anick, I just realised that our two duels in tpr02 and > tpr04 were in fact 3-way battles: > > tpr02: > Andrew Savige 75.41 > Jay Tilton 75.41 > Yanick Champoux 76.46 > t

Re: (TPR04)Oh, my achin' eyeballs^H

2002-06-11 Thread Yanick
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 08:58:54AM -0700, Rick Klement wrote: > For another shot at Yanick, check out the open golf game at > > http://LA.pm.org/golf/ I want to precise here that I play the LA as a practice hole. Which means that I absolutly, completely, intransigent refuse to

Re: Finis (was Re: Argh!)

2002-06-11 Thread Yanick
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 09:41:57AM +, Ton Hospel wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Stefan `Sec` Zehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 08:41:52PM +0200, Stefan `Sec` Zehl wrote: > >> I really tried to beat Mr. Escaped Quote[tm], but as I have to leave > >>

Re: (TPR04)Oh, my achin' eyeballs^H

2002-06-11 Thread Yanick
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 04:09:56PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > En op 08 juni 2002 sprak `/anick: > > `/anick, who beat /-\ndrew by a gnat's eyelash. YEAH! > > NO! Oh, the unspeakable pain and anguish, and in the > last hour too! `/anick, you dirty rotten bastard ... Ah! Now the wor

Re: Newbie alert!

2002-06-11 Thread Yanick
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:53:37AM -0400, Karger, Amir wrote: > (see Yanick's BOG to get just one person's solutions -- once Y has updated his site, >that is!) Y just did that. Golfer's comments are now displayed along the solutions. The ref's comments should be added Real Soon(tm). (it

Re: (TPR04)Oh, my achin' eyeballs^H

2002-06-07 Thread Yanick
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:03:49PM +0600, Jay Tilton wrote: > > Yanick, what's with that tr///? You feeling alright? :) This use of tr was, if you can believe it, actually a deliberate decision of me. You see that stupid perl see the '-y' in '3-y///c&

Re: Argh!

2002-06-07 Thread Yanick
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 02:21:32PM -0500, Chris Dolan wrote: > I'll bet $5000 of my "winnings" that the leaders are exploiting some > groovy 5.6.1 "features" that those of us still running 5.6.0 don't know > about (and maybe don't want to know about...). Any takers? > > `/anick, care to add a fe

Re: [tpr04] 2.5 days left

2002-06-06 Thread Yanick
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 02:54:01PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > `/anick, I have three goals in this tournament: > 1) Break 200 > 2) Finish within 40 strokes of the winner > 3) Beat `/anick by a nostril > With the last of these being paramount. In this case, I think you want to pee

Re: [tpr04] 2.5 days left

2002-06-06 Thread Yanick
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 08:49:15AM -0500, Chris Dolan wrote: > I strongly agree. I've already given up on this hole 4-5 times, but I > keep coming back to it with strange ideas that I just *have* to try. > One of them actually gained me some ground last night. Poor `/anick. :-P Gentle

Re: [tpr04] 2.5 days left

2002-06-05 Thread Yanick
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 11:37:45PM +0200, Stefan `Sec` Zehl wrote: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:58:28PM +0200, Eugene van der Pijll wrote: > > It is. I like the variation after the convoluted algorithms of last > > month. > > Actually I don't. But that might just be because It took me about 4 > h

A new interface to the leaderboard

2002-06-01 Thread Yanick
In the tradition of shouting "oh, lookee! shiny things!" when one wants to draw the attention away of some particuliary shameful score, I am proud to announce the creation of a new interface to the leaderboard. And without being overly smug with myself, I think this one's really a beaut. The ser

Re: Fun With Profiling

2002-05-29 Thread Yanick
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 11:00:51AM -0400, Simon Drabble wrote: > which was quickly followed by > > -p s#(\d)\s+([\d\.]+)#"$1 $2 ".($1>0?$2/$1:'0')#e; > > Any takers? at first glance: -p s#(\d+)\s+([\d.]+)#"$& ".$2/($1||1)#e Joy, `/anick -- "look me in the eye and if you see fami

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