Some of your lines are more than one line. The python crowed would likely try to stab your eyes out. At least that's my experience. ... perhaps the only good way to compare program size is by bytes? Also, I'm basically certain that perl golf will not impress python coders. In fact, people like merylin have argued that golf doesn't impress would be perl coders either. ;)

Still, I value this kind of competition with the python coders. TIMTOWTDI doesn't count there.

UPDATE: I suppose I wasn't very clear. Many of the one line things in that perl program would most definitely be more than one line in python ... or the python people would get mad and point out that there's only one way to do it. Any way you look at it, perl's meanings can go much farther to the right (if you're in the mood to do so), so a byte count is still better.

-Paul

In reply to Re: Knight's Tour Problem in Perl by jettero
in thread Knight's Tour Problem in Perl by ptoulis

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