[columbus.pm] [Fwd: golf invite (fwd)]

Jason Alexander alexander.232 at osu.edu
Mon Jul 3 10:57:22 CDT 2000


brian d foy wrote:
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 19:11:24 -0400
> From: Uri Guttman <uri at sysarch.com>
> To: brian d foy <tidbit at smithrenaud.com>
> Subject: golf invite
> 
> brian,
> 
> lease forward this to the monger group leaders and ask them to forward
> it to their local lists. note, they have first crack at registering and
> in a few days i will announce it everywhere else. you can say something
> to that effect (and it is in the invitation too).
> 
> thanx,
> 
> uri
> 
>         Announcing the First Annual Perl Golf Apocalypse
> 
> Larry Wall, the father of Perl, has observed that the three virtues of a
> programmer are laziness, impatience, and hubris.  Laziness has been
> explained as doing more with less. A variation of that is doing the same
> with less. For quite a while the newsgroup comp.lang.perl.misc has had
> threads where each poster was trying to solve a basic problem with
> shorter code than the previous post. This type of coding competition was
> named Perl Golf by Greg Bacon because in both Perl and physical golf the
> goal is to finish with the fewest (key)strokes.
> 
> Now the Perl Golf Committee (led by Uri, who conceived the idea) has been
> hard at work organizing a Perl Golf Tournament for the 4th Perl Conference
> in Monterey this July.
> 
> The Perl Golf Apocalypse (PGA) is for 10 teams, each comprised of up to 3
> Perl hackers. Each team will be given its own computer to use and will
> to try to solve a set of simple problems by writing a short piece of
> Perl code.  Each team must submit its code, which will then be tested and
> compared to the answers from the other teams.  Each problem (or hole as
> we call them) will be given to all the teams at the same time and will
> have a time limit (about 5-7 minutes, depending on the hole).  There
> will be 9 holes in all and after 4 of them the 5 lowest scoring teams
> will be cut (just like in real golf tournaments).
> 
> There are three ways to score points on a hole.
> 
>   * First, if the code submitted by a team correctly solves the
>     problem, 1 point is awarded.
> 
>   * Second, the correct answer with the fewest keystrokes is awarded 6
>     points with the next two runners up getting 5 and 4 points each.
> 
>   * Third, the correct answer which was submitted the earliest, is
>     awarded 3 points with the next two runners up getting 2 and 1 points
>     each.
> 
> So a team can earn a maximum of 10 points on one hole.  It is important
> to note that the execution speed of the code is not a factor in scoring.
> 
> The holes will be judged by a Perl script created by us. It will check
> the correctness of all the submissions, rank them by the shortest code
> and also rank them by the timestamps on the submitted answer files. Then
> the script will award points and keep track of scores for each
> team. Another script will be used by the commentators to display the
> current point totals for the teams, the scoring for a given hole and the
> actual code submitted by the teams.
> 
> After all the holes are finished, the teams will be ranked by score, and
> from highest to lowest, they will be allowed to choose their prizes. The
> prize list includes computers, refrigerators stuffed with booty, cruise
> discounts, cdroms, books, clothing, etc.  Everyone who enters the
> tournament is guaranteed a prize.
> 
> Our two guests, Chip Salzenberg and Chris Nandor will provide
> an entertaining commentary on the proceedings.
> 
> This invitation is being sent to the Perl Mongers in advance of other
> groups to give you a first chance to register to play in the PGA.
> Groups of 3 or 2 registering together as a team will be given preference
> over single entrants, so get your local monger group to enter a team.
> 
> Send your registration request to golf at sysarch.com with this
> information:
> 
>         Monger Affiliation
>         Team Name
>         Member Count
>         Real name and email for each team member
> 
>         If you are a single entrant, do you want us to put you on a
>         team?
> 
>         Optionally, tell us your level of perl experience
> 
> You can also visit the Perl Golf page at
> http://www.sysarch.com/perl/golf/ which has the PGA rules and
> invitation, the prize and sponsor list, a real golfing thread from
> c.l.p.misc, and more.
> 
> The Perl Golf Apocalypse Team
> 
> Uri Guttman
> Brand Hilton
> Ronald Kimball
> Larry Rosler
> Damian Conway
> 
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