From: sabbyxtabby@... (Sabby and Tabby)
Date: 2003-08-26T23:47:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Why did you switch from Python to Ruby?

Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@yahoo.com> wrote:

> > > Trsr:
> > >
> > >   #!perl -p0777
> > >   $_="@{[y/
> > >   //,0+split,y///c]}
> > >   "
> > 
> > This illustrates pretty well why I switched from Perl to Ruby. =)
> 
> 
> I know there's a smiley there, but let's be fair; people don't
> generally say they switched from C because of the entries in the
> OCCC, and that is clearly an overt example of TRYING to be
> obfuscated.

No effort was made to obfuscate.  Every effort was made to abbreviate.
The above is an example of *terse* code.  Perl golf anyone? :)