Perl Golf

Learning Perl in Competition

Definition

A competition to find the shortest (fewest keystrokes) Perl code to solve a given problem.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Perfection is achieved not when you have nothing more to add,
but when you have nothing left to take away.

Monthly Tournaments

Update: Most golfing activity has moved to Terje Kristensen's Minigolf site.

The Perl Golf community puts on monthly tournaments. ActiveState and O'Reilly award prizes to the winners of the beginner and veteran competitions.

TPR(0,6) Rules | Leaderboard | Post-Mortem
TPR(0,5b) Rules | Leaderboard | Post-Mortem
TPR(0,5a) Rules | Leaderboard | Post-Mortem
TPR(0,4c) Rules | Leaderboard | Post-Mortems: Factorial - Postorder
TPR(0,4b) Rules | Leaderboard | Post-Mortem
TPR(0,4) Rules | Leaderboard | Post-Mortem
TPR(0,3) Rules | Leaderboard | Post-Mortems: Kolakoski - Cantor
TPR(0,2) Rules | Leaderboard | Post-Mortem
TPR(0,1) Rules | Leaderboard | Post-Mortem
TPR(0,0) Rules | Leaderboard | Post-Mortem

Services

Using the PGAS web service, Perl hackers are displaying PGAS data in interesting ways:

BBoUbSAS and WAP services by `/anick
Perl golf charts by Adam Spiers
Call 1-800-303-9987 (pin: 852211), to get leaderboard updates. Brought to you by `/anick and Voxeo.

The spawn of `/anick's BoG:

Perlgolf map by Sec
Alien Sightings by Dave Hoover

PGAS (Perl Golf Administration System) helps Perl Golf administrators administrate Perl Golf courses on the web. It is a MySQL-driven Perl/CGI application that automates many of the tasks that make Perl Golf administration such a time-consuming endeavour.

DBI
CGI.pm
SOAP::Lite
MIME::Lite
HTML::Template

Definition

Monthly Tournaments

Services

PGAS

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