From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-05-25T03:47:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance

On May 23, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Douglas Livingstone wrote:

> $ cat example.rb | parse_tree_show -f | ./lispify.rb
> ((defn
>  sum
>  (scope
>   (block
>    (args a b)
>    (return (call (lvar a) + (array (lvar b)))))))
> (lasgn a (lit 3))
> (lasgn b (lit 4))
> (lasgn c (fcall pythag (array (lvar a) (lvar b))))
> (fcall puts (array (lvar c))))

It'll look better if you run it through Rewriter first.  Rewriter  
removes a few of the AST optimizations ruby makes in exchange for  
more-readable sexps.

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