* Jason Bailey (Mar 06, 2005 22:20):
> I'm new to ruby so this was quite a fun little thing to help me get up 
> to speed on what you can do with the language.
> 
> since this quite small and simple I've attached it.

Very nice.

Time for a shameless plug:

For the arabic-to-roman case, one could have done

require 'lisp/format';$stdin.each{|l|Lisp.format("~@R",l.to_i)}

But the Lisp module isn't part of the standard library...,
	nikolai

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main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}