From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-07-19T19:47:35+09:00
Subject: Ruby and coding contests (was Re: Selling ruby to my boss)

Hello --

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

> Isaac wrote:
>
> > I've seen some pretty messy looking code in this list. Especially the
> > one liners that do some crazy task. But all the code I've written is
> > pretty simple. I guess it depends on those who originally code something.
>
> Is there a Convoluted Ruby Contest like there is for Perl?

Actually, sort of the opposite, almost....  Last year there were plans
for a Code Amelioration Contest -- that is, a contest based on the
improvement and clarification of (deliberately) obscure Ruby code.
The theory behind it was that Ruby excels at facilitating clear,
readable code, so that it harmonizes more with the language to go in
that direction than toward obscurity.  (Besides, the world is already
full of obfuscated code contests :-)

The Amerlioratin Contest never quite happened, because it was
scheduled for the conference in October 2001 and in the weeks leading
up to that conference people weren't really in the mood to write
entries.


David

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