From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-12-15T21:57:42+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby beats them all

Matias Surdi wrote:
> Jeff Wood escribi�:
>> 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 = 1, 1
>>>>  n.times do
>>>>    a, b = 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
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> "Remember. Understand. Believe. Yield! -> http://ruby-lang.org"
>>
>> Jeff Wood
>>
>
>
> You're all crazy.... :-)
>
> (in the good sense... ;-) )

I didn't know there was a bad sense about it... ;-)

    robert