From: Tim Hammerquist <tim@...>
Date: 2003-07-11T07:42:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby T-Shirt Idea

Mauricio Fern�ndez graced us by uttering:
> Xavier Noria wrote:
>> 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...

Non-OO, idiomatic Perl can almost always beat ruby by at least a
few characters.  OO Perl automatically doubles the length (and
execution time) of a program.

IMHO, whatever snippet chosen should make effective use of
iterators, as this is probably the feature that makes Ruby the
most unique among its contemporary counterparts.

Cheers,
Tim Hammerquist
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