Anti-golfing

2002-10-27 Thread Peter Makholm
In a momentary[0] insanity I came up with the concept of anti-golf. Just looking for the largest solution wouldn't be fun. You can always add dead code. Demanding that every op-code should be executed isn't much better, then you just have to add ramdom not used calculations in the code. For a whi

Re: anybody willing do some golfing?

2002-10-27 Thread Mtv Europe
Hello Hubert! [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hubert Depesz Lubaczewski) wrote: > best as for now is: > #!perl -l > > ($_=pop).=reverse;s/(.)./$1/g;print unpack"H*",reverse$_ > x1e4&(($q=pop)^~$q)^$q

Re: New mi(n|d)i golfs

2002-10-27 Thread Mtv Europe
Hello All! [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terje Kristensen) wrote: > We started 2 new golfs yesterday, "Modular Fibonacci" and "Go golf". > > "Modular Fibonacci" : http://terje.dev.webon.net/golf/?12 > "Go golf" : http://terje.dev.webon.net/golf/?11 Both of golfs are over now, please submit your solutions.

Re: Anti-golfing

2002-10-27 Thread David H. Adler
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 10:47:26AM +0100, Peter Makholm wrote: > In a momentary[0] insanity I came up with the concept of anti-golf. I'm not sure how far it's been thought through, but the concept has been suggested to be called "perl bowling". > Can anyone come up with a bounded measurement tha

Re: Anti-golfing

2002-10-27 Thread Ton Hospel
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In a momentary[0] insanity I came up with the concept of anti-golf. > > Just looking for the largest solution wouldn't be fun. You can always > add dead code. Demanding that every op-code should be executed isn't >

Re: Anti-golfing

2002-10-27 Thread Phil Carmody
--- Ton Hospel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Peter Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In a momentary[0] insanity I came up with the concept of anti-golf. > Can't be done. Yup. > e.g. I can convert the program to a turing machine and run it on that. > t