MadMongers

[The mailing list appears to be busted again, so I'm reposting this via the web form] 

At this month's meeting on Thursday, Doug presented a practical and interesting collection of tips & tricks to write short Perl programs.  One of our (many) digressing conversations was on obfuscation, Perl golf and JAPHs.

While I do not advocate writing terse code for public consumption (which hurts maintainability as well as Perl's reputation) it is fun and addictive.

Here is an URL for a good introduction to JAPH programs:
  http://ucan.foad.org/~abigail/Perl/Talks/Japhs/

An introduction to Perl golf is available on Perl Monks:
  http://www.perlmonks.org/?displaytype=print;node_id=437032
The golf competition mailing list is summarized here:
  http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.golf/

An example of a nice golf with many learning moments is at this URL, with an explanation written by me:
  http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.golf/2002/07/msg1289.html
and the specification of the problem:
  http://perlgolf.sourceforge.net/TPR/0/4b/

Chris