From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-01-06T02:19:48+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8697] Re: "the 3 great virtues..." Ruby port

Jens Luedicke <jens@irs-net.com> writes:

> That was not my problem... Perl is known for the fact
> that you can feed it with even the messiest and ugliest
> code. After I had rewritten it with Ruby I tried
> to re-style my code like Larry's original... but wasn't
> possible.
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> @a=(Lbzjoftt,Inqbujfodf,
> Hvcsjt); $b="Lbssz Wbmm"
> ;$b =~ y/b-z/a-z/ ; $c =
> " Tif ". @a ." hsfbu wj"
> "suvft pg b qsphsbnnfs"
>  ":\n";$c =~y/b-y/a-z/;
> print"\n\n$c ";for($i=0;
> $i<@a; $i++) { $a[$i] =~
> y/b-y/a-z/;if($a[$i]eq$a
> [-1]){print"and $a[$i]."
> ;}else{ print"$a[$i], ";
> }}print"\n\t\t--$b\n\n"; 

     cc  =  %w?Tif\ 3\ hsfbu\ wjsuvft\
     \ pg\ b\ qsphsbnnfs: Lbzjoftt,\ \
     Inqbujfodf,\ aoe\ Hvcsjt.?;  b  =
     "Lbssz Wbmm"; b.tr!("b-z", "a-z")
     cc.each {|i| i.tr!("b-y", "a-z")}
     puts cc,"\n\n\t\t--\s#{b}","\n\n"


See, even all messed up, Ruby code is shorter ;-)


Dave