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June 29 2009
Pascal vs. Ruby
On ruby-talk somebody was asking for a method which will be used to generate a random string, by returning either a lowercase letter or one of the digits 0-9 when called. As an example he posted the following Pascal program:
function GetRandomChar: char;
var
r: integer;
begin
r := random(36);
case r of
0..25: result := chr(ord('a') + r);
else : result := chr(ord('0') + r);
end;
end;
“Translating” this to Ruby, this is what I got:
In your face, Niklaus Wirth! 
P.S. Actually I do have fond memories of the good old Turbo Pascal days.
