En r�ponse � Stephen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
>
> > So, how about having some way of letting spectators see the
> > entries. It would (of course) require some sort of honour system; at
> > the very least disbarring any spectator who has seen a solution from
> > entering that hole, but I think it would definitely make for better
> > watching. Certainly judging by some of the comments of the judges,
> > seeing the solutions come in has proved very entertaining.
> >
>
> FWIW, I'm sure this would be very entertaining, but I really don't see how
> it could work. The temptation for players to peek would be too strong.
It might work in a live, public Perl golf competition. Big screens behind
the players backs, where the public can see them working and testing their
entries.
Then the submitted entries are tested, scores are given, and next round
starts. Maybe someting more animated, like each time a player submits
a new entry, a big screen prints the code, the score, and the list of
all snippets in some interesting order.
I'd say you'd need quite a good MC for this kind of stuff to be really
entertaining. :-S
Or, at a conference, the bag you are given when you arrive could have the
rules of the golf course that'll run during the whole conference. Leaderboard
updated hourly, and available machines for people to post their code
(tested on the server, or something like that). One of the last events of
the conference can be the post-mortem. But once again, the public can only
see the leaderboard, and the test coverage ("X's latest entry passes 98/100
tests").
The post-mortem may include some last minute improvements, when the code
becomes public and the top players can improve their code on stage.
The public gets to watch the final sprint for victory.
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