From: Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@...>
Date: 2005-12-15T04:55:38+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby beats them all

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Nice.

On 12/14/05, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Peter Ertl" <pertl@gmx.org> writes:
>
> > that why I love ruby (and functional languages in general)
> >
> > def fibonacci(n)
> >   a, b =3D 1, 1
> >   n.times do
> >     a, b =3D b, a + b
> >   end
> >   a
> > end
>
> That's not functional...
>
> How about really doing it functional?
>
> def fib(n)
>   (1..n-2).inject([1, 1]) { |(a, b), n| [b, a+b] }.last
> end
>
> :)
>
> > elegance beats ignorance (ruby vs. java)
> --
> Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@gmail.com>  http://chneukirchen.org
>
>


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Jeff Wood

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