Alexander Kellett wrote:
> On Feb 22, 2005, at 10:37 PM, Josef 'Jupp' Schugt wrote:
> 
>> An ORCC doesn't seem to be a good idea. I already hear them saying "See
>> this? They keep on saying that Ruby code is much cleaner than Perl code.
>> Don't believe their lies."
> 
 > you're just annoyed cus you can't write crap code!

It only seems more natural to use C for that. The following is a quick 
and dirty hack to compute n! I wrote yesterday - without having 
obfuscation in mind. It's simply my way of writing C. Blame it on my 
tutorial - K&R.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(int argc,char*argv[]){
   unsigned long long i,fac;
   for(i=fac=atoi(argv[1]);i>2;fac*=(--i));
   return(printf("%ll\n",fac)==1);
}

To me Ruby is a tool for elegant solutions:

ruby -e 'puts (1..10).inject{|f,x| f*x}'

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt