From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2003-08-23T20:40:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Why did you switch from Python to Ruby?

Doug Kearns <djkea2@mugca.its.monash.edu.au> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 02:04:13AM +0900, Sean O'Dell wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> My point here is, I have yet to hear of a single person who left Ruby 
>> for another scripting language.
> 
> I came across someone today on the JudoScript list doing just that. If
> you're interested have a look at:
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/judoscript/message/295
> http://www.judoscript.com/

lines = words = chars = 0
IO.foreach(ARGV[0]) {|line|
  lines += 1
  words += line.split.length
  chars += line.length
}

puts "#{lines} #{words} #{chars}"

Just saying :)

martin