From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2005-02-23T08:12:00+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: 2005 International Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest (IORCC)

Quoting matz@ruby-lang.org, on Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 08:07:49AM +0900:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: ANN: 2005 International Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest (IORCC)"
>     on Wed, 23 Feb 2005 06:37:50 +0900, Josef 'Jupp' Schugt <jupp@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> |An ORCC doesn't seem to be a good idea. I already hear them saying "See
> |this? They keep on saying that Ruby code is much cleaner than Perl code.
> |Don't believe their lies."

Powerful languages allow obfuscation. Weak languages only allow garbage
code.

Anybody looking at the code in an obfuscated coding contest as an
example of how unreadable a language is severely misses the point.

Sam