From: Brian Adkins <lojicdotcom@...>
Date: 2007-11-28T22:55:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Most elegant way to do this?

On Nov 28, 8:10 am, Lloyd Linklater <ll...@2live4.com> wrote:
> William James wrote:
> > That C-code is hideous.  Let's compare it to something
> > that isn't insanely low-level.
>
> OOOOO!  I know this one!
>
> If you meant this as pascal, this is the code:
>
> function roll( n: integer ): integer;
> var i: integer;
> begin
>   for i := 1 to n do result := inc(result, random(6) + 1);
> end;
>
> There is no += in pascal.  If only...  :)  Your version where you init
> the result so you do not have to add may run faster but I golfed it a
> bit.  Still, it is far better than the C version.  I liked seeing it
> here too.  :)

You do realize that the C code I embedded in the Ruby program actually
ran automatically via "ruby myfile.rb", and that was the point, right?