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04-19-2005, 05:53 PM

It's certainly greek to a newbie non-programmer. Newbie friendly languages are notable for their readability.

Hmm I've never heard of K. It's quite terse.

In Ruby I came up with this:
[code]
def hex(x)
f = lambda {|n,r,a|f.call(n/16,r,a) if n>15;r<<a[n%16]}
f.call(x.to_i,"","0123456789ABCDEF")
end
[/quote]

I'm not sure that lambda and continuations, are what I'd call newbie friendly features though one could certainly grow in languages that have them rather than abandoning the language later. I can't imagine that the uninitiated would take to such constructs as fish to water without a lot of repeated beatings. OTOH sequential procedural thinking is quite natural for most humans.

Odd that they would use that earlier posted MOO routine as I had thought MOO supported hex specifiers in formatted printing, but maybe I'm thinking of ColdC.

BTW, what do you think of Groovy?

04-19-2005, 05:53 PM	#23
Posts: n/a	It's certainly greek to a newbie non-programmer. Newbie friendly languages are notable for their readability. Hmm I've never heard of K. It's quite terse. In Ruby I came up with this: [code] def hex(x) f = lambda {\|n,r,a\|f.call(n/16,r,a) if n>15;r<<a[n%16]} f.call(x.to_i,"","0123456789ABCDEF") end [/quote] I'm not sure that lambda and continuations, are what I'd call newbie friendly features though one could certainly grow in languages that have them rather than abandoning the language later. I can't imagine that the uninitiated would take to such constructs as fish to water without a lot of repeated beatings. OTOH sequential procedural thinking is quite natural for most humans. Odd that they would use that earlier posted MOO routine as I had thought MOO supported hex specifiers in formatted printing, but maybe I'm thinking of ColdC. BTW, what do you think of Groovy?