In 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;

In 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?