A month ago whe Jerome asked if I would like to co-referee tpr02 I had no real idea what refereeing really meant. Yeah I would get some submission and sould accept or reject them but I had no idea how it would compare to real perl golfing.
Refereeing is like having access to 100 tv channels --- not being in control of the remote control and only being used to 2-4 channels. Well --- probally not that confusing but it is not a worse analogy than all the car analogies people uses. The greates difference was that when I wasn't the active referee I almost felt relaxed. I wasn't about to get killed in trafic because I was thinking about golfing all the time and I was able to sleep most of the week. And I think the week-long real-time Post Mortem is a educating process. If you don't understands the solution there really isn't anyone to ask. You have to deconstruct the solution on you own. I probally spent more time understanding different solutions and comparing them than I would have done in the real post mortem. I didn't get to play with BoB very much. I'm looking forward to be able to do that more next time I'm refereeing. About the time: I don't think refereeing is something to do when you don't have the time to play golf the real way. Refereeing if fun and interesting. You see golfing from an all new perspective and it is an experience I can recommend. (Another thing is that without referees we would be able to play golf this way) -- Emacs er det eneste moderne styresystem der ikke er multitr�det.
