o0lit3, your JAPH brings back a flood of memories for me ... and not all sweet. :-) The punishing Fonality Christmas Roman Numeral contest, closely followed by the gruelling codegolf Roman to Decimal game. Ah, the good ol' days of punishment and torture. Curiously, HART won't help you much in the latter game, where 86 seems to be the HART limit, with 59 possible by other means.

On the codegolf leaderboard, I recognized a few PM nicks, though very few from the original fwp Perl golf crowd. AFAICT, the centre of world golf has moved to Japan and multi-lingual golf the modern form of the game. To give it a try, I submitted entries in all four languages (Perl, Ruby, Python, PHP) in the Roman game, where the Perl leaderboard after nine months of competition is:

 1.  59  bearstearns
 2.  59  kounoike
 3.  60  robin
 4.  61  arpad
 5.  62  eyepopslikeamosquito
 6.  65  shinh
 7.  66  ergasun
 8.  66  redneval
 9.  70  ott
10.  73  jojo
11.  73  yvl
12.  74  o0lit3
13.  77  ySas
14.  78  agenticarus
15.  79  tybalt89
16.  82  yojeb
...
24.  99  chargrill
...
47. 197 dankogai
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o0lit3, you only need to improve by one stroke to move into the Perl top ten. :-) I hope to be able to eventually peer at the other solutions and write up another Roman post mortem, but that depends on the web site. I'd like to see them close off each game after one year of play and publish all solutions for some post mortem fun.