/prog/ - Ruby is verbose, compared to Symta

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-21 18:14

Symta:

type person{Name Age} name/Name age/Age
person.`<` X = $age < X.age
person.as_text = "{$name} ({$age})"

Group = [person{'Bob' 33}, person{'Chris' 16}, person{'Ash' 16}]

say Group.sort.flip

Ruby:

class Person
  attr_reader :name, :age
  def initialize(name, age)
    @name, @age = name, age
  end
  def <=>(person) # the comparison operator for sorting
    age <=> person.age
  end
  def to_s
    "#{name} (#{age})"
  end
end
 
group = [
  Person.new("Bob", 33),
  Person.new("Chris", 16),
  Person.new("Ash", 23)
]
 
puts group.sort.reverse

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-27 9:40

>>32

Symta is verbose, compared to Perl.

Nope.

Symta: ['Bob',33 'Chris',16 'Ash',23].sort{?1 < ??1}{(say "[?0] ([?1])")}
Perl 5: print "$_->[0] ($_->[1])\n" for sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] } (['Bob',33],['Chris',16],['Ash',23],);

Ruby is verbose, compared to Symta

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