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Re^9: Perl Golf Ethics

by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop)
on Jan 04, 2007 at 21:20 UTC ( [id://593057]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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in reply to Re^8: Perl Golf Ethics
in thread Perl Golf Ethics

I DID have fun
Agree
I DID work on it
Agree again
to find that I started out at a distinct disadvantage from the start is the pisser
Now this is where we diverge. Like Jasper and `/anick, had this happened to me, I would see the funny side of it, laugh at myself, shake my fist in the general direction of the person one stroke ahead of me on the leaderboard and swear to get even next time. :-) It's only a game after all.

So perhaps my concerns aren't "rubbish", eh?
What I said "rubbish" to was your assertion that the competition was essentially a test of knowledge of ancient romanic magical formulae and not a test of cleverness and coding skill. I found that claim to be insulting to all the golfers who worked so hard and so deviously to shave off just one more stroke. Now, if you are suggesting that, armed with Ton's magical romanic formula, you could have somehow swept majestically past the Golfic Emporer Tonius Hospelius to claim the $350 bounty, I will happily walk down the main street of Chicago in my underwear, swinging a five iron, shouting "That Lester guy is talking rubbish again!". :-)

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Re^10: Perl Golf Ethics
by petdance (Parson) on Jan 04, 2007 at 22:47 UTC
    I found that claim to be insulting to all the golfers who worked so hard and so deviously to shave off just one more stroke.

    That would include me, too, and I certainly don't begrudge anyone else their fruits. If anyone was insulted by that, I apologize. I just wanted a level playing field.

    xoxo,
    Andy

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