Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-29 Thread Honza Pazdziora
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 03:08:33PM -0500, William C. (Bill) Jones wrote: Beginner's Leaderboard -- 24. 124 Bill Jones Hmmm, I wonder if it is too late to find another language? To get under 124 in other language? --

Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-28 Thread Andrew . Savige
Current Leaderboard --- 1. 65 Eugene van der Pijll 2. 69 Rick Klement 3. 75 Ton Hospel 4. 75 Keith C Ivey 5. 77 Tim Gim Yee 6. 78 Wesley Darlington 7. 78 Honza Pazdziora 8. 78 Jan Yenya Kasprzak 9. 79^ Matthew Byng-Maddick 10. 80

Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-28 Thread Andrew . Savige
Current Leaderboard --- 1. 65 Eugene van der Pijll 2. 69 Rick Klement 3. 75 Ton Hospel 4. 75 Keith C Ivey 5. 77 Tim Gim Yee 6. 78 Wesley Darlington 7. 78 Honza Pazdziora 8. 78 Jan Yenya Kasprzak 9. 79 Matthew Byng-Maddick 10. 80

Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-28 Thread Andrew . Savige
Final Leaderboard - 1. 65 Eugene van der Pijll 2. 69 Rick Klement 3. 75 Ton Hospel 4. 75 Keith C Ivey 5. 77 Tim Gim Yee 6. 78 Wesley Darlington 7. 78 Honza Pazdziora 8. 78 Jan Yenya Kasprzak 9. 79 Matthew Byng-Maddick 10. 80 Yanick

Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-28 Thread Rick Klement
Yanick wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:17:05PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Current Leaderboard --- 1. 69 Rick Klement AAAUGH!!! (and I think I speak for the vast majority of us here...) Thank you, that was the nicest

Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-28 Thread Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Final Leaderboard - snip I know many people have done it already but I'd like to thank Andrew for running this game. It was a ball (in a hair pulling, bad language kinda way). I don't know about the others that play but I learn

Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-28 Thread Yanick
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 09:55:29AM +0800, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote: I know many people have done it already but I'd like to thank Andrew for running this game. It was a ball (in a hair pulling, bad language kinda way). I will join my voice to the chorus. To come up with such

Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-28 Thread Dave Hoover
`/anick wrote: Andrew doesn't only deserve our thanks, he also deserves recommendations for a good, professional psychiatrist. As a family therapist (previous career), I'd advise Andrew to include his significant other in any treatment that he seeks. It may take some time to get re-acquainted

Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-27 Thread Andrew . Savige
Current Leaderboard --- 1. 65 Eugene van der Pijll 2. 69 Rick Klement 3. 74 Keith C Ivey 4. 75 Ton Hospel 5. 77 Tim Gim Yee 6. 78^ Wesley Darlington 7. 80 Yanick 8. 81 Matthew Byng-Maddick 9. 81^ Sean McAfee 10. 84 Daryl Olson 11.

Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-27 Thread Andrew . Savige
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Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-27 Thread Andrew . Savige
Supremely Unorthodox/Artistic Prizes When the game is over, I would like to allow a period of discussion on the list before awarding the artistic prizes(s). So as soon as you can after the game has finished, I would like

Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-26 Thread Andrew . Savige
Current Leaderboard --- 1. 65 Eugene van der Pijll 2. 69 Rick Klement 3. 74 Keith C Ivey 4. 75 Ton Hospel 5. 77 Tim Gim Yee 6. 79 Wesley Darlington 7. 80 Yanick 8. 81 Matthew Byng-Maddick 9. 84 Daryl Olson 10. 84 sthoenna 11. 84

Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-25 Thread Piers Cawley
Ronald J Kimball [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you can get the command line switches to work *without* that space character, then you don't have to pay for it. If that's some kind of hint... -- Piers It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in possession of a rich syntax

Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-24 Thread Piers Cawley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A test program, teven.pl, and embedded below, is provided to help screen entries. Any program that passes the test program should be submitted. Especially if you suspect your program unsound, but it passes the test program, please submit it anyway! That is how we

Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-24 Thread Andrew . Savige
Current Leaderboard --- 1. 77 Tim Gim Yee 2. 78 Eugene van der Pijll 3. 80 Yanick 4. 81 Rick Klement 5. 84 Keith C Ivey 6. 92 Ronald J Kimball Beginner's Leaderboard -- 1. 127 Byron Jones Hole Leaders Hole 1: Tim Gim

RE: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-24 Thread Andrew . Savige
Piers Cawley wrote: I just found a bug in the test program by inspection. See below. --- Hole 1 -- Get Even (even.pl) Your program reads from a single input file and writes to stdout; you are not permitted to write anything to stderr.

Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-24 Thread Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat
En réponse à [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I knew BooK was an obfuscator specialist. Well, thanks for the compliment. *blush* I have not yet entered the course, mainly due to work issues, but I already dreamt of this game tonight (thinking of false solutions to the holes)... :-) Yanick, I did not

Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-24 Thread Bill -OSX- Jones
I am at 119 strokes ... and it fails... I no longer have any idea why :( Are we allowed to ask for help??? _Sx ('-Sx- IUDICIUM //\ Have Computer - v_/_Will Hack...

Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-24 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 08:21:04AM -0500, Bill -OSX- Jones wrote: I am at 119 strokes ... and it fails... I no longer have any idea why :( I'm at 95, and I'm amazed to see the ones in the mid 80s on the leaderboard. I don't see where they can be cutting the strokes. MBM -- Matthew

Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-24 Thread Honza Pazdziora
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 02:14:39PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 08:21:04AM -0500, Bill -OSX- Jones wrote: I am at 119 strokes ... and it fails... I no longer have any idea why :( I'm at 95, and I'm amazed to see the ones in the mid 80s on the leaderboard.

Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-24 Thread Wesley Darlington
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:59:38AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The input file may be assumed to contain no binary zeros. Does it follow therefore that the input file may be assumed to contain only binary `1's? :-), Wesley. (At 95, staring in slack-jawed amazement at *77*! :-)

Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-24 Thread Yanick
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 08:21:04AM -0500, Bill -OSX- Jones wrote: I am at 119 strokes ... and it fails... I no longer have any idea why :( Are we allowed to ask for help??? It goes against the fundamentally sadistic principle of the game, but yeah, why not? :) Joy, `/anick --

Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-24 Thread Piers Cawley
Yanick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:26:16PM +, Piers Cawley wrote: I'm currently swearing like a trooper 'cos I can't get down below 108 strokes, which is, frankly, terrible. My shortest attempt at even.pl is currently longer than the leader's score for both

Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-24 Thread Piers Cawley
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yanick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:26:16PM +, Piers Cawley wrote: I'm currently swearing like a trooper 'cos I can't get down below 108 strokes, which is, frankly, terrible. My shortest attempt at even.pl is currently

RE: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-24 Thread Ala Qumsieh
BTW, did anybody get below 35 (with the original test program) for gs.pl? Yes. On my first attempt, and haven't had the chance to optimize it more .. Ala

Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-24 Thread Yanick
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:41:13PM +0100, Joerg Ziefle wrote: BTW, did anybody get below 35 (with the original test program) for gs.pl? *mad cackles* `/. -- print map { ( split '', 'P arctehYkl.no' )[ hex ] } split '', '86512cd57631063a1724963b';

Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-24 Thread Sean McAfee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sub GolfScore { my $script = shift; local ($_, *FF); open(FF, $script) or die could not open $script: $!; my $golf = -1; # your free last newline while (FF) { s/\n?$/\n/; $golf-- if $. == 1 s/^#!.*?perl//; I just realized I was being

RE: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-24 Thread Andrew . Savige
Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: I'm at 95, and I'm amazed to see the ones in the mid 80s on the leaderboard. I don't see where they can be cutting the strokes. Just to *really* spoil your day, Rick Klement has just surged ahead to 73!! And it is possible to go lower. But this madness must stop

Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-24 Thread Bill -OSX- Jones
my new line looks like: #!perl -n and it works even though my perl is /usr/local/bin/perl On Thursday, January 24, 2002, at 04:24 PM, Sean McAfee wrote: I just realized I was being unfairly penalized by this line because my hash-bang line looks like this: #!/some/path/perl5/bin/perl

Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-24 Thread Yanick
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:17:05PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Current Leaderboard --- 1. 69 Rick Klement AAAUGH!!! (and I think I speak for the vast majority of us here...) `/anick, still stuck at the impossibly high score of 80. --

Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-24 Thread Andrew . Savige
= New test program teven.pl = Please find new test program, teven.pl, embedded below. Minor bug fixes: 1) Win95/98 now prints expected number making it easier to manually check gs.pl (thanks Tim Gim Yee). 2) gs.pl test data: Changed 'Great'

Re: FORE! Get Even Golf Game Tees Off

2002-01-23 Thread Andrew . Savige
Current Leaderboard --- 1. 92 Ronald J Kimball 2. 92 Rick Klement Ronald's got company. Hmm, maybe 92 is the limit of this game. ;-) /-\ndrew