From ruby-talk-admin@ruby-lang.org Thu Dec 15 22:52:48 2005 Received: from kankan.nagaokaut.ac.jp (kankan.nagaokaut.ac.jp [133.44.2.24]) by blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.6) with ESMTP id jBFDqmZk020119; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:52:48 +0900 Received: from funfun.nagaokaut.ac.jp (funfun.nagaokaut.ac.jp [133.44.2.201]) by kankan.nagaokaut.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2EC05B9A; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:52:49 +0900 (JST) Received: from localhost (localhost.nagaokaut.ac.jp [127.0.0.1]) by funfun.nagaokaut.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DD01F04866; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:52:53 +0900 (JST) Received: from voscc.nagaokaut.ac.jp (voscc.nagaokaut.ac.jp [133.44.1.100]) by funfun.nagaokaut.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1702F0484A; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:52:50 +0900 (JST) Received: from beryllium.ruby-lang.org (beryllium.ruby-lang.org [210.163.138.100]) by voscc.nagaokaut.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4226163002B; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:52:53 +0900 (JST) Received: from beryllium.ruby-lang.org (beryllium.ruby-lang.org [127.0.0.1]) by beryllium.ruby-lang.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D9EA33BD4; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:52:49 +0900 (JST) Received: from localhost (beryllium.ruby-lang.org [127.0.0.1]) by beryllium.ruby-lang.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC9A033A19 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:52:39 +0900 (JST) Received: from beryllium.ruby-lang.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (beryllium.ruby-lang.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 28067-06 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:52:39 +0900 (JST) Received: from sinus.lauschmusik.de (sinus.lauschmusik.de [213.95.32.201]) by beryllium.ruby-lang.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CF11339FE for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:52:39 +0900 (JST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost.localdomain) by sinus.lauschmusik.de with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EmtUf-0004cZ-Ga for ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:50:01 +0100 Received: from objmedia.demon.co.uk (objmedia.demon.co.uk) by sinus.lauschmusik.de with NTTP id 166197 for ; Thu Dec 15 14:50:01 CET 2005 Received: from [objmedia.demon.co.uk] by objmedia.demon.co.uk (unknown) with NNTP id 166197 for ; Thu Dec 15 14:50:01 CET 2005 Received: from Usenet via a Usenet to mail gateway located at lauschmusik.de. This service provided as a courtesy to the ruby-talk mailing list. If this message is SPAM, its ultimate origin is Usenet, not this gateway program. All subscribers to the ruby-talk mailing list agree to receive the Usenet postings made to comp.lang.ruby via this gateway. Please see http://www.ruby-lang.org/ruby-talk-usenet-policy.html. Delivered-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:52:40 +0900 Posted: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:44:46 +0000 From: Stephen Kellett Reply-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org Subject: Re: ruby beats them all To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML) Message-Id: References: <30085.1134584182@www7.gmx.net> X-ML-Name: ruby-talk X-Mail-Count: 29 X-MLServer: fml [fml 4.0.3 release (20011202/4.0.3)]; post only (only members can post) X-ML-Info: If you have a question, send e-mail with the body "help" (without quotes) to the address ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org; help= User-Agent: Turnpike/6.05-S () X-Original-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org Path: noris.net!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!mutlu.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!objmedia.demon.co.uk!snail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Organization: Object Media Limited NNTP-Posting-Host: objmedia.demon.co.uk X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1134654404 4195 83.104.134.62 (15 Dec 2005 13:46:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:46:44 +0000 (UTC) X-From-Usenet: see Received: header above. X-rubymirror: yes X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ruby-lang.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on beryllium.ruby-lang.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=7.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, CONTENT_TYPE_PRESENT,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RCVDFRMLOCALIP autolearn=ham version=3.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii;format=flowed Precedence: bulk Lines: 14 List-Id: ruby-talk.ruby-lang.org List-Software: fml [fml 4.0.3 release (20011202/4.0.3)] List-Post: List-Owner: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020531 In message , Christian Neukirchen writes >def fib(n) > (1..n-2).inject([1, 1]) { |(a, b), n| [b, a+b] }.last >end Thats about as readable as APL. Maintenance nightmare. Stephen -- Stephen Kellett Object Media Limited http://www.objmedia.demon.co.uk/software.html Computer Consultancy, Software Development Windows C++, Java, Assembler, Performance Analysis, Troubleshooting