"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message 
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> Mike the Elder wrote:

>> that the key to maintaining the LPV which is at the core of the fairness 
>> issue
>> is to see to it that helpful information about how to shorten code is 
>> made
>> available to EVERYONE.
>
>  I think there's a difference between generic optimization tips which
> can be applied to most entries (such as "you don't need a comma between
> a number and a variable"), and providing optimization tips to someone's
> specific code ("in your code you can replace this with that and it will
> make it 2 character shorter"). Of course what can be considered a
> generic optimization principle and what can be considered code-specific
> optimization is a rather fuzzy line.

I sort of agree with this, but I still think it's secondary to the contest. 
Short tricky code is nifty, but if it's a boring picture, who cares. 
Artistry and creativity still rule the roost, so to speak. Maybe my outlook 
is different that the judges though.

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