From: Gennady <bystr@...>
Date: 2003-08-25T03:21:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Why did you switch from Python to Ruby?


On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 03:21 AM, Sabby and Tabby wrote:

> Terser:
>
>   x = ARGF.read
>   puts [x.to_a.size, x.split.size, x.size].join ' '
>
> Tersr:
>
>   x=$<.read;puts [x.map.size,x.split.size,x.size]*' '


As somebody have already mentioned, you never stop learning something 
new about Ruby every day on this list. It is so cool. I never saw any 
mentioning that String#to_a (and String#map) splits a string into 
lines. But it really works!!! And [...]*' ' is pretty neat too :-).

In a real Judo contest Ruby would get "ippon" within first couple of 
seconds over JudoScript ;-)

Gennady.