Neat, thanks for the links. I made a Google search before posting and found only the first Perl Monks node. I was also surprised this challenge wasn't more popular. I was actually inspired by a post on the /r/prolog subreddit, where such challenges are regularly posted.
P.S. That code.golf page sure is hard to navigate – can you actually see people's solutions on there?
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use Compress::Zlib;print uncompress 'x\xda\xe5 ...
Note that this solution would not have been accepted at the original code golf competition web site because modules were not allowed in
those competitions - though you could use compression via the pack function as described in excruciating detail at Compression in Golf: Part I.
The tricky problem of how long to keep the competitor's solutions a secret is touched upon in The golf course looks great, my swing feels good, I like my chances (Part IV) in the "No Time Limit" and "Golfer Burn Out" sections ... and also (update) in Re^2: The golf course looks great, my swing feels good, I like my chances (Part I).
In our early golf games, run on the fwp and golf perl mailing lists, the solutions were kept secret for one week - see Dueling Flamingos: The Story of the Fonality Christmas Golf Challenge for an example
of a classic one week Perl code golf competition (with cash prizes!) from the good old days.
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