From: "Erik Bågfors" <erik@...>
Date: 2001-11-22T00:12:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26029] Re: R:  Re: Hello World considered harmful

On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 15:31, Dave Thomas wrote:
> Alessandro Caruso <a.caruso@creditonline.it> writes:
> 
> > I thought the main reason people are moving towards Ruby instead of
> > keep using Perl is the better language design and the clarity of
> > code.
> 
> And once you're here, have fun. Golf tournaments, obfuscating code,
> and the like are good ways of learning new features of the language
> that can apply in normal, everyday code. Damian Conway gives a great
> talk where he spends 2 hours explaining about 20 lines of absolutely
> horrendously obscure Perl code. By the end of it, you know a lot more
> Perl than you did going in.
> 
> Anyway, from the reaction to the post, I've learned that code like
> this is frowned on by the Ruby community. As a relative newcomer, I
> hadn't realized this before. I'm terribly sorry to have offended
> anyone, and I'll work hard in the future to write "proper" Ruby code.
> 

I think alot of people really liked the code :)

I know I did...


face it people.  You can do obfuscating in (almost) any language.  There
is nothing wrong with having a bit fun with it. :)

/Erik
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