in reply to TPR(0,1) Golf Tournament Begins!

PLEASE DO NOT POST TPR(0,1) SOLUTIONS HERE ON PERL MONKS!!

During Perl Golf tournaments all solutions should be submitted to the referees and not posted publicly. This makes for a much more competitive tournament and allows there to be such things as leaderboards and individual achievement. It also forces beginners to RTFM and learn how to play golf without using code they don't understand.

Thanks,
--Dave

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Re (tilly) 2: TPR(0,1) Golf Tournament Begins!
by tilly (Archbishop) on Mar 02, 2002 at 16:34 UTC
    While I understand the desire to not have public discussion during a competition, for me that ruins most of the fun. What I find most enjoyable is seeing how other people run with my ideas and how I can run with theirs. Public posting and discussion facilitates that.

    However I can see why people who consider "winning" important wouldn't agree with me, so I will bow out of this.

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      Golf is an individual sport: players hit the balls themselves, and others can't help the player with getting the ball into the hole.

      But... others CAN watch the player, imitate him, and learn from his moves. And I think we should encourage that.

      I also like to see other people use my ideas, and I don't care much for winning at all. Although I'm not a beginner in Perl, Perl Golf is quite new to me, and I have much to learn.

      I would like to post my entry over here :(
      (My current score is 72 strokes) 

      Lbh ebgngrq guvf grkg naq abj lbh pna ernq vg. Fb jung? :)   -- Whreq

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        <quotemeta> But... others CAN watch the player, imitate him, and learn from his moves. And I think we should encourage that. </quotemeta>

        Yes, but to keep it inidividually competitive, the watching, imitating and learning (which I highly recommend) must be done after the tournament by reading the post-mortem and discussing the solutions here or on Fun with Perl.

        --Dave

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Re: Re: TPR(0,1) Golf Tournament Begins!
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Mar 01, 2002 at 19:43 UTC
    Are you going to post the top entries here? Please do so, cause I know my golfing skills have improved ten-fold, just by reading the golfs here by japhy, masem, and ovid, among others.

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      The top entries will be deconstruced in a future TPR issue. All entries will be posted when the tournament is over. I will repost this URL here when that happens.

      Yes, reading through Golf Tournament post-mortems is an extremely effective way to improve your golf game.

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Re: Re: TPR(0,1) Golf Tournament Begins!
by Amoe (Friar) on Mar 01, 2002 at 21:25 UTC

    Amoe hurriedly puts on asbestos trousers

    Very sorry. That wasn't a serious thing - hell, I'm nowhere near skilled enough to enter it, that's why I didn't submit it. I just thought it might inspire people to get started. Obviously that was wrong. You can reap my nodes now :)



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