Hello. I'm the admin of http://spoj.com/SHORTEN. A site, in which you can submit your Perl programs and they will be compiled and run with problem's data.

I have a user there who is especially good in Perl and he has the best score (= shortest programs) in most problems. So I was thinking that perhaps some of you would like to give it a try and challenge him. I'm wondering whether anybody can beat him in any task.

Here's a ranking for Perl (as you can also submit on SHORTEN programs in other languages):
http://sphere.pl/~kokosek/langrank/perl.php
As you can see, his score is 9.93/10.

To encourage you, printing n-th Fibonacci number takes in Perl only 43 chars (assuming t tests) - it's FIBON problem on SHORTEN if you wondered.

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Re: Code golfing site - SHORTEN
by Schmunzie (Beadle) on Mar 15, 2015 at 01:15 UTC
    I had a look but I don't understand how to view the code.
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      I don't think you can; in my experience that's a feature of various code-golfing sites, as seeing others' solutions would give you a rather unfair advantage.

      Past Perl golfing contests often (always?) had a deadline after which solutions would be revealed and a post-mortem prepared so everyone could compare their solutions, learn, and improve on them still. (I remember a very nice and rather huge PDF collecting all these, from various contests/sites.) Unfortunately this appears to have fallen out of style.

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      AppleFritter is right - there's no such option.
      You have to write your own code, not shorten other ones. If there was an option to view codes after the deadline, problems would have to be added constantly.

      For that, you can visit Anarchy Golf.
      More problems, more languages, more users. And there are 2 types of problems: endless and post mortem. From what I understand, you'd be more interested in post mortem ones.

      Sorry for such late answer but I wasn't notified.

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