From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-07-11T06:52:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby T-Shirt Idea

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 06:35:27AM +0900, Xavier Noria wrote:
> On Thursday 10 July 2003 22:32, Orion Hunter wrote:
> 
> > What we need is a code snippet that is excessively long and obfuscate
> > in Perl, such as a single line of code which has to wrap around the
> > t-shirt to be completed (with all the @ and $ symbols, etc.), and
> > then do the same in Ruby underneath... which only takes a fraction of
> > the width of the front side of the shirt.
> 
> IMHO it will be almost impossible to do that, being fair and idiomatic 
> with the Perl version, writing readable Perl, and getting that ratio at 
> the same time.
> 
> Though I would be glad if I was proved wrong :-).

Something OO? With all the blessing and stuff, Perl is quite ugly, esp.
when compared to the neatness of Ruby...

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