Stephen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Here are some statistics from the current series of games: >> >> fwp Santa (head, tail, ...): 35 players on scoreboard >> irc Christmas (human sort): 11 players on scoreboard >> fwp Get Even: 51 players on scoreboard >> TPR Base 36: 82 players on scoreboard >> TPR Secret Number: 128 players on scoreboard >> > > This reminds me of something. I'd love to know more about the history of > Perl golf. Who invented it, and so on. Does anyone know about this? (And if > so, would it make a good article for TPR? :-)
Not sure who invented it, but this http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=7km3p5%24gm6%244%40info2.uah.edu&output=gplain appears to be where the term was coined by Greg Bacon. -- Piers "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite." -- Jane Austen?
