Golfing Perl-style!

Came across something weird yesterday, so of course I immediately thought of sharing it all with you.

The point of golf is to complete the course with as few strokes as possible. So, clearly, this is immediately portable to Perl... yes, the programming language. Perl Golf is all about completing some program in as few keystrokes as possible.

Have to say that it is a rather neat idea, a rather geeky way to show off your Perl ability, to program better than anyone else... and to write a stream of gibberish symbols that actually seems to do something.

There are a number of sites around about Perl Golf competitions, but I can't find anything that is up to date. This site is Jan 2007, but can't immediately find anything in the year since... passing fad has passed?

Oh well. Interesting in a comp-nerd way. Now, if it was Python Golf...

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