From: Jack Herrington <jack_d_herrington@...>
Date: 2002-04-19T01:44:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Freshmeat article about Ruby

On 4/18/02 9:30 AM, "Pat Eyler" <pate@eylerfamily.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Paul Brannan wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 01:07:22AM +0900, Mark Hulme Jones wrote:
>>> And down:
>>> 
>>> ruby -pe ''
>>> 
>>> :-)
>> 
>> And down just a little more:
>> 
>> ruby -pe0
> 
> arrrgh!!! It's Ruby Golf!

You know, if you alias ruby to 'r' you could remove three characters. ;-)


Guys, I kept the examples in the article simple so that; 1) the article
would be short, and 2) I wouldn't have to explain what the example was doing
since 'cat' is generally easy to understand.

Next time, I think I will use a Fast Fourier Transform algorithm as the
example just to really bake your noodle.  Try golfing with that! (Without a
call to a library function.) ;-)