[REBOL] Re: Rebol vs Ruby
From: rebol:techscribe at: 19-Dec-2000 13:25
Hi Galt,
Ruby predates REBOL by a year or two (I've been on the Ruby mailing list
much longer than REBOL's).
IMHO you really cannot compare Ruby to REBOL. From a syntactic point of
view Ruby (to me) is extremely cumbersome and cryptic. It is intended as
a purely object oriented scripting language and reminds me of a mixture
of Java and PHP. Here is a code sample submitted by Steve to the Ruby
mailing list:
#! /usr/bin/env ruby
# Given the number of seconds, convert to English description
table = [ [ 31557816, 'year' ],
[ 2629818, 'month' ],
[ 86400, 'day' ],
[ 3600, 'hour' ],
[ 60, 'min' ],
[ 1, 'sec' ] ]
result = ""
time = ARGV[0].to_i
table.each {|unit, sing, plur|
plur = sing+'s' if !plur;
size = time / unit
if size > 0
result += "#{size} #{(size == 1) ? sing : plur} "
end
time %= unit
}
puts result
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