On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 05:38:48PM +0000, Ton Hospel wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Jonathan E. Paton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Dave and co, > > > > Make sure that the TPR golf rules state that using automated > > tools to evolve solutions is prohibited. Perhaps this is a > > "fair means" clause. I'd hate to think that lazy sods could > > use: > > > > tiger_pgolf.pl [1]
I don't see any problems with automated tools. The only way I'd ever have time to play a contest would be to write a tool to do it for me :-/ > I've in fact used tools to generate code fragments and evaluate them during > golfs (though it never really helped). I also think that's perfectly valid. > If anyone ever makes tiger.pl, more power to them I say. > > And you would also stop Andrew's picture solutions, which basically proves > that an anti-generator rule is unacceptable. > > I've in fact thought on and off about a "trivial parts" optimizer. It's > probably doable, but pretty hard. Maybe use it as hole in the penultimate > "golf contest to end all golf contests". B::Deparse::Golf anyone? -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net
