From: Juan Gf <juangf7@...>
Date: 2010-03-23T19:35:02+09:00
Subject: Re: sort elements

Ryan Davis wrote:
> On Mar 23, 2010, at 02:47 , Juan Gf wrote:
> 
>> 2  car
>> 1  apple
>> 1  tree
>> 
>> Any ideas?
> 
> Read aloud what the code says, translated to natural language (English 
> or otherwise, doesn't matter... just raise it to human thought level). 

CONVERT THE TEXT IN LOWER-CASE AND THEN SPLIT THE TEXT INTO SINGLE 
WORDS! THEN COUNT HOW MANY TIMES EVERY SINGLE WORD APPEARS!

> Then say aloud what you want it to do, step by step. 

CONVERT THE TEXT IN LOWER-CASE AND THEN SPLIT THE TEXT INTO SINGLE 
WORDS! THEN COUNT HOW MANY TIMES EVERY SINGLE WORD APPEARS! THEN SORT 
THE RESULTS: FIRST THE MORE COMMON WORDS AND AFTER THE LESS COMMON WORDS 
FINALLY, BLOODY COMPUTER, BRING ME A PIZZA!

> What's the difference? 

the difference is "THEN SORT THE RESULTS: FIRST THE MORE COMMON WORDS 
AND AFTER THE LESS COMMON WORDS FINALLY BLOODY COMPUTER BRING ME A 
PIZZA!"

> Translate that difference back down to code.

I tried to use .sort like this:

"b.uniq.each do |element|
  puts "#{(b.count(element)).sort}\t#{element}"
end"

but obviously it doesn't work.

Ryan, thanks for your time and excuse for the "pizza joke" (is a bad 
joke no doubt)

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