From: w_a_x_man <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2009-08-08T11:05:04+09:00
Subject: Re: How do I add ?

On Aug 7, 7:43 pm, Rob Biedenharn <R...@AgileConsultingLLC.com> wrote:
> On Aug 7, 2009, at 8:10 PM, w_a_x_man wrote:
>
> > On Aug 7, 7:02 pm, w_a_x_man <w_a_x_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> On Aug 7, 11:44 am, chutsu <chu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>> I've got a file that is in two columns, how do I add the second
> >>> column
> >>> up as I read through the file?
>
> >>> Code:
> >>> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> >>> file = File.open('some_file.txt')
>
> >>> # Going through each line
> >>> file.each do |line|
> >>>  data = line.split("\t")
> >>>  total += data[1]        # How do I make this line work?
> >>> end
>
> >>> puts total
>
> >> awk "{t += $2} END {print t}" some_file.txt
>
> > ruby -ane"BEGIN{$t=0}; $t += $F[1].to_f; END{p $t}" some_file.txt
>
> Just because you can still write your Perl in Ruby, doesn't mean that
> you *should*.

An example from Matz (Ruby in a Nutshell):

ruby -ne 'print if /Ruby/' /usr/share/dict/words

Matz put these features in Ruby so that they could be used,
not so that they would not be used.

But in your blind arrogance, you believe that because of your
very special two-digit IQ, you are the sole arbiter of what is
permissible with Ruby. And when someone dares to post code that
does not conform to your standards of bloat, pretentiousness,
pomposity, inefficiency, and intellectual mediocrity, you lash
out with self-righteous savagery.

As a man and as a programmer, you are a sick joke.