--- Prakash Kailasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The thanks should go to Ton for coming up with > problem, the pretty pictures and the works.
Very interesting problem indeed. Thanks Ton et al. This hole served to prove that given the algorithm, many people will converge to almost identical code, but still the best will win. Congrats to the winners. What struck me the most about this hole was that my 69 solution (why does that sound so kinky?) and the winning 54 solution were almost identical. I kicked myself several times in the foot and a couple of times on the forehead when I saw the postmortem. Those especially stand out: 1) My abominable $$[$i++%@@] could be replaced by the very simple and straight forward shift@@ saving 4 strokes right there, tying me with (-ugene. Argh! 2) Another abominable piece of code shared by many golfers $$[$_]=~/.$/;$_=$&.$` could be eliminated very easily by a slightly deeper insight into the algorithm. Again, great job refs, and congrats to the winners. --Ala __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com
