From: martindemello@... (Martin DeMello)
Date: 2002-10-18T21:08:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Please check my algorithm

Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<20021017140152.98861.qmail@web12404.mail.yahoo.com>...

> Yeah, I apologize for my tone there; I didn't mean to come across as
> nasty as it sounded.

'Sok, though I must admit I was taken aback.

> It amuses me sometimes to see the accolades for how much easier ruby
> is to read/write (or how much harder perl is!) because of the more
> regular syntax.  Then inevitably when someone asks how to do
> something, the responses leapfrog each other in terseness _well_
> beyond reasonable readability.  =)

Small problems like this are a great way to explore some of Ruby's
features, though. And every now and then, as you whittle and hack away
at the code, you break through some sort of obfuscation barrier and
everything suddenly crystallises into a beautiful new form or
technique that is both terse and elegant, but which would never have
been found if you'd stuck to the clear but verbose way of doing it.

martin