On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:33:26AM +0000, Piers Cawley wrote: > 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. >
Actually, I think it was this one from Greg Bacon, a month earlier: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=7imnti%24mjh%241%40info2.uah.edu Ronald
