Re: Book Idea: The Golfer's Handbook

Sounds like fun. But you're right that it would have a small audience, so how about broadening the material? Maybe "Perl Golf" would be a chapter in a larger book called, say, "Perl for Sheer Fun". Other chapters could be things like

Obfuscation (get Erudil and BooK to contribute their code!)
The Acme:: modules.
Poetry (? Dunno about this: I don't think there's much to be learned here.)
Writing quines, by means fair and foul (I'm thinking of World's worst Perl quine.)

I'm sure there's more stuff in the same vein.

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Re: Re: Book Idea: The Golfer's Handbook by belg4mit (Prior) on Dec 04, 2001 at 03:11 UTC
How about games? Games::Rezrov and a few other Games:: (the specific ones not generic classes?) Lingua::Romana::Perligata and some other Lingua::*? var'aq Klingon language programming (currently) implemented in perl? Text::FIGlet not to toot my own horn And I'm sure there are a few others tucked away... As for poems Coy might be a good thing for that. `-- perl -p -e "s/(?:\w);([st])/'\$1/mg"`	[reply]
(elbie): Book Idea: The Golfer's Handbook by elbie (Curate) on Dec 04, 2001 at 21:11 UTC
Although I don't know what the Acme modules are (and believe me, I'm going to look them up after this post), the others are definite must haves. ++'ng your node simply didn't express my approval enough. ;) elbieelbieelbie	[reply]