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Comment by SwellJoe | Hacker News Reader

Where are the solutions? That's the fun thing about Perl golf is seeing how people did it in X characters. Without solutions...well, I don't see the point.

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I'm logging the solutions, but in real MVP fashion... not showing them just yet. Need to bootstrap a vimscript parser first.

If anyone is up for it, would love some help with the client/parser: https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf

I will take part in this when the solutions are displayed. All the fun is in the solutions. So for me, hiding them kills the whole point of the project. Otherwise it would be lots of fun. Im a long time vim user and love it.

I think Project Euler has a good compromise - you can see (and comment on!) solutions once you've successfully passed some baseline. Then you don't feel like you cheated, but can pick apart their solutions, now that you've already focused on that problem for a while.

I've learned a LOT figuring out how some outstanding PE submissions worked, translating their algorithms to my favorite languages.

MVP meaning 'Most Valuable Player'?

Minimum Viable Product

"Maximum reVivification Potential" gets my vote.

Is the parser for deconstructing the solutions? That'd be a useful feature to have along with the solutions themselves.

Do you really need to do anything super smart with them? Could you at least link to the logged scripts as files? Smarter stuff can come later.

Good news. You can now preview the solutions!

Only one wrinkle: you have to submit your own challenge to see the solutions.

Ex: http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4d1a8bf2b8cb3409320002c4

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