Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?

[w_a_x_man]

On Jan 1, 5:56 pm, The Quiet Center <thequietcen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 1, 11:08 am, Nathan <nbeen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If you want a easy to read self-documenting functional language, look
> > into Ruby. I know personally that Ruby syntax was a big turn off to me
> > for several weeks (kind of like Lisp) but once you learn it, it
> > becomes the easiest to read of any programming language I've ever
> > experimented with. No contest.
>
> Well, Python was chosen over Ruby for MIT's rework of their intro to
> cs course because Python is multi-paradigm, whereas Ruby claims
> everything is an object.
>
> How would you code this simple list compression problem in Ruby:
>
> 1.08 (**) Eliminate consecutive duplicates of list elements.
>     If a list contains repeated elements they should be replaced with
> a single copy of the element. The order of the elements should not be
> changed.
>
>     Example:
>     ?- compress([a,a,a,a,b,c,c,a,a,d,e,e,e,e],X).
>     X = [a,b,c,a,d,e]
>

"aaaabccaadeeee".squeeze
    ==>"abcade"

p=nil; %w(a a a b c c a a d e e e).select{|x| x!=p && p=x}
    ==>["a", "b", "c", "a", "d", "e"]