Evolution of a Ruby Programmer

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by bschaefer • 16 years ago

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bcx• 16 years ago

It looks more like a degradation towards perl :-)

bschaefer• 16 years ago

It 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• 16 years ago

Honest 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• 16 years ago

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?

Evolution of a Ruby Programmer

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