Re: [FWP] APL vs. Perl. A query from a lazy programmer.

[yanick1@sympatico.ca]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 03:42:08PM +0000, Ian Phillipps wrote:
> The topic of APL came up today, and I recalled an APL one-liner (about
> 150 chars if I recall) that printed a set of 4 Bridge hands in the
> conventional layout.
> 
> Having more laziness and impatience than hubris at the moment, I
> wondered if fwpers would rise to the challenge of duplicating this
> feat...

#!/usr/bin/perl
for$a(qw/S H D C/){push@d,map"$a$_",2..9,qw/a b c d e/}$_==($i=rand($_+1))
or@d[$_,$i]=@d[$i,$_]for 0..@d;sub h{$_=join ',',reverse sort splice@d,0,13
;1 while s/(.)(.*?,)\1/$1$2/g;s/(\w)(\w)/\n$1: $2/g;y/edcba,/AKQJT/d;$_}$t=
' 'x13;push@hands,map{s/\n/\n$t/g;$_}h()for 0..1;@t=split/\n/,h()."\n".h();
$hands[2].=sprintf"%-23s%s\n",@t[$_,$_+5]for 0..4;print join"\n",@hands[0,2
,1];
__END__

Joy,
Yanick

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