What: golf and benchmarks, Where: snippets, When: from now on, Why: for fun and glory!

[MeowChow]

In a chat with dkubb the other day, we agreed on how much we'd love to see two additional sections of the monestary devoted to impromptu golfing and benchmark contests. Since a golf or benchmark arena isn't going to be added to the monestary anytime soon, we thought that a good interim solution would be to place contest-initiating posts in Snippets, prefixed by (Golf) or (Benchmark), to indicate that such a game is afoot. The snippets section seems like a good place because:

• It's uncategorized, unlike Code Catacombs.
• Many snippets are of ahhh... questionable value.
• Snippets don't take up front page real-estate.
• Snippets are expected to be short.

Of course, we'd like to hear comment from everyone on this, especially editors and vroom, before imposing such posts upon the snippets section.

   MeowChow                                   
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[arhuman]

Ok, but don't forget the old contest still running(?) :

A real tough one
practical one
old one
Chomping one
Binary one
Useful indexing one
recent one
'odd' one ;-)
pattern creating one
Illegal one(In some countries)
Easy one
Pig latin one

And a really special one to me,
the one which make me learn perl and not only put statements one after another :
The ultimate challenge

Provided by SuperSearch...
Feel free to /msg me to 'rename' the contests cited above, or point me to all those I missed...


"Trying to be a SMART lamer" (thanx to Merlyn ;-)

[danger]

I'll cast my vote in favor of your suggestion for the interim posting of Golf and benchmark challenges to snippets.

I certainly think Perl Golf and little efficiency challenges can be both educational and recreational and deserving of their own little showcase. However, regarding your suggestion of two new sections devoted to Golf and benchmarking, perhaps all we require is just one general new section ('games' or 'challenges' or something) that could serve as an umbrella recreational category over not only golf and benchmark arenas but any other little challenges that one may come up with (logic puzzles, maze solving, or even gaming challenges such as the 'stones' contest from TPJ, etc). Perhaps this one section could end up sub-categorized much like the catacombs.

Oh, and a big ++ to arhuman for rooting out a few more nodes to squander my time on :-) ... the ultimate one at the bottom of his list is marvelous!

[ybiC]

I don't have a strong opinion either way on this.   But instead of diverting Snippets, why not continue with SOPW while using the (Golf) or (Benchmark) prefixes?   At least until vroom might see fit to add the new section(s).
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    Don
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