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Evolution of a Ruby Programmer
- bcx 17y agoIt looks more like a degradation towards perl :-)
- bschaefer 17y agoIt seems to me that programmatic evolution is often like biological evolution -- namely, it moves from "simple but works," to "Wouldn't it be cool if..." :)
- csmeder 17y agoHonest feed back? How about this version: def fact(max=ARGV[0].to_i, i1=1, i2=1, i=1) i < max ? fact(max, i2, i1+i2, i+1) : (puts i1) end fact() This was the 2nd program I wrote in Ruby (I know it's recursive and therefore inefficient but my goal was to see how short I could make it not how efficient)
- jff 17y agoIn my opinion, the "Newbie programmer" and the "Discovered ternary operators" are the clearest and simplest and can be understood by anybody who knows a C-like; the first one especially is the clearest to anyone. I'm not a Ruby programmer, though--are there increasing performance gains as the function evolves?
- joeycfan 17y agoThat's brilliant! The inline bit looks clever! Gotta look into it.