<div dir="auto">Yo peeps, in view of the ongoing no trains via Baildon situation I'm sorry to dip out of this one :(<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">However you may all wish to meditate on what the Code Golf exercise is optimising for, how it stands in relation to other possible best practices, and what is useful and appropriate in any practical situation.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And then next month we can have an informed, free flowing and open discussion about that, which will conclude that, in practice, no, Code Golfing is never appropriate or useful, except as an educational antipattern for enlightened programmers. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">:)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-D.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 11 Feb 2024, 09:20 John Robert Hudson via Bradford, <<a href="mailto:bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk">bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear all<br>
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The topic for our face-to-face meeting at BCB on Tuesday is code golf - <br>
seeking the shortest way to address a particular problem. So put your coding <br>
hats on and come along to see what people have to offer.<br>
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BCB will make the OHP available for that meeting.<br>
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John<br>
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