[Purdue-pm] Pascal's triangle

[Michael Gribskov]

  I totally agree, given the amount of effort that goes into maintenance 
vs initial development, the length of the code is a very poor metric for 
quality.

On 8/25/2010 1:38 PM, Bradley Andersen wrote:
> Given I have not spent any time looking at it, at first glance:
> sub pascal { [1], ->  @p { [0, @p Z+ @p, 0] } ... * };
>
> troubles me greatly.
>
> That line of code is totally un-readable, and therefore completely
> useless to 95% or more of the population (that's a very scientific
> number, pulled right out of ..)
>
> People, even Larry Wall (praise be upon him), should NOT EVER code like this.
>
> \bda
>
>
> --              --
> be like water
> --              --
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Joe Kline<gizmo at purdue.edu>  wrote:
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>> I think Perl 6 itself will hurt my brain.
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>> http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-6/pascal-triangle.html
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