March's Secret Number Perl Golf challenge, hosted by The Perl Review is over and the post-mortem is now available. If anyone is interested in seeing how over 130 golfers think by taking a look at almost 600 separate submissions, check it out.

More information can be found at the Perl Golf page at Sourceforge.

--Dave

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Re: TPR(0,1) Completed
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Mar 08, 2002 at 14:12 UTC 
    -l print while+s/./hex($`%10+$&)%15/eg^s//pop/e

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    Gods. That's a crazy solution. :-)

    I really liked the recursive-call-yourself solutions. Unfortunately, the one I tried was affected by the PGAS bug. *shrugs* It'd be really nice if someone took it upon themselves to explain the various algorithms used. Just on a quick glance, I saw some 10-15 different approaches...

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