No. Golf is a game where the winner has the lowest score. It's reused as the term for a programming challenge to implement an algorithm with the fewest number o

No. Golf is a game where the winner has the lowest score. It's reused as the term for a programming challenge to implement an algorithm with the fewest number of characters. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl#Perl_pastimes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl#Perl_pastimes . This is no more indicative of Perl than the Obfuscated C contest is indicative of C.