From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-07-09T02:26:03+09:00
Subject: Re: make this code more Rubyish

On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

> Hi --
>
> On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, William James wrote:
>
>> puts "Dir\tProd\tDev\tDiff",
>> [ prod, dev ].map{|x| x.split(/\s+\S+\n/).map{|s| s.split} }.
>> transpose.map{|x| x.transpose}.map{|n,s|
>> [ s[0], n[0], n[1], n[1].to_i - n[0].to_i]}.select{|x|
>> x[1,2]!=["0","0"]}.sort_by{|x| x[-1]}.map{|x| x.join("\t")}.reverse
>
> He's done it in Perl already -- he said more Rubyish :-)

Whoops, my witty repartee was factually inaccurate. 
s/in Perl/in Ruby but in a more typically Perlish style/ :-)


David

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