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From: kevin.cline@gmail.com (Kevin Cline)
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Subject: Re: Ada Popularity: Comparison of Ada/Charles with C++ STL (and Perl)
Date: 24 Sep 2004 13:09:54 -0700
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Eric Jacoboni <jaco@neottia.net> wrote in message news:<m2ekkspza5.fsf@mac.scrogneugneu.org>...
> Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.org> writes:
> 
> > And it is just unreadable ! I just can't understand how this is supposed
> > to work!
> 
> Agree... 
> 
> What about Ruby ? Much more readable than perl/python, imho. 

The Ruby implementation lines up with the Perl code almost token for
token,
except that I used the Perl <> operator, and I didn't bother storing
the sort result in a variable.

I agree that Ruby is slightly more readable than Perl, but I don't
know about MUCH more readable.  I think the use of %, @, and $ in Perl
is not obvious, and the <> operator is pretty magical, but the rest of
the code seems straightforward.