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• NPR puzzle solver mentioned perl (Score:1)

  by kid51 (5328)

  Yes, I heard that as well. Perhaps we could play Perl Golf by trying to retrospectively writing the Perl program the winner used!
  • Re:NPR puzzle solver mentioned perl (Score:1)

    by cbrandtbuffalo (4462) on 2006.10.03 6:56 (#50699) Journal

    Glad to hear I'm not the only NPR junkie out there. :)

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    • NPR perl puzzling Re:NPR puzzle solver ... perl (Score:1)

      by n1vux (1492)

      I'm more of a BBC junkie than NPR junkie, but I've been off-and-on using Perl to solve the weekly puzzle, when it appeared amenable to attack with /usr/dict/words. I presented my use of Perl to cheat at word-puzzles to Boston.PM 2003-12-09, http://world.std.com/~wdr/x/wesun/WESun.html [std.com], which includes discussion of 3 NPR puzzles that don't seem very Perl-able, as well as several that were.

      A good number of my solutions have turned on manipulation of canonical representation, especially for anagrams, but

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      Bill
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