Congratualations to Tim Gim Yee and Patrick Gaskill (beginner), winners of The Perl Review #0 Golf tournament. With over 80 TPR0 participants, Jerome and I are looking foward to many active tournaments in the months ahead!
Special recognition also goes to Andrew Savige for not only submitting 9 entries, but for submitting an incredible 7918 stroke solution that solved the base-36 conversion and did some excellent advertising for The Perl Review as well. Andrew will be deconstructing his solutions on fwp over the next few days for those of you interested in getting a glimpse inside the head of a Perl Golf junky. Nine players ended up with the winning 33 stroke solution, but Tim submitted it first. Unfortunately, this hole had a solution that was not very golfish, but did reward those willing to dig through some documentation on the core Perl modules. Here is the winning solution: #!perl -l use POSIX;print~~strtol pop,36 __END__ The post-mortem is available at: http://redsquirrel.com/dave/golf/TPR0/ Remember to check out the Perl Golf column in the upcoming issue of The Perl Review to get instructions for the TPR1 tournament running from March 1 through March 7. --Dave
