Re: Alternative to newbies category...

2002-05-09 Thread mewrenn
> ty wrote: > > It may be preferrable to be first in the beginners list rather than 10th > in the veterans. Could be. But with another Lars or Lolly Pop waiting in the wings to claim the prize, first may not be worth playing for each week. I speak from experience :) Dave Hoover wrote: > Perhaps

Re: The minigolf "Cantor's revenge" has ended

2002-10-04 Thread mewrenn
Thanks to Ton and Terje for providing us with a course to fill in for the delay of TPR. This was a lot of fun and there are some very interesting solutions. I'm warmed up for TPR tomorrow. I scratch my head as I look at the use of "glob" by Ton and mtve. mtve: -l //,print map$_!~~$'.j&~Q,@;f

Are You a Perl Golf Addict?

2002-10-13 Thread mewrenn
Ask yourself the following questions to determine if you are addicted to Perl Golf. Score one point for each question, except where noted. 1) You have ever posted from work. Add 5 for refereeing from work. 2) You have posted from a location other than home/work (+1 for each addition location). 3)

Re: [November golf] Referees Sought

2002-11-02 Thread mewrenn
Ton Hospel wrote: > > In article gentoo>, > Consider that the mingolfs have been running for months in an > essentially referee-less mode without any real problems. I think a lot > is to be learned from them, since they are basically an attempt to run > golfs with minimum overhead. > The minigolf

Re: Googlism and golfers

2002-11-09 Thread mewrenn
First, I came across a true statement: wrenn is human Followed by some that are less clear in both truthfulness and clarity: wrenn is averaging 25 wrenn is a number between 16 And then a complete falsehood: wrenn is one of the top returning scorers in this confere

Here's to the Refs!

2002-11-20 Thread mewrenn
Thanks to Ton, MTV, Prakash, Andreas and Yanick for breathing life into a near-dead tournament! Nice for a non-CS guy (me!) to get an introduction to a useful algorithm AND have 2 options in front of me! Nice write-up and pretty pictures too (non-CS guys need pictures)! I also want to extend my p