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From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: Libraries for sysadmins?
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 12:10:28 +0100
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On 04.03.2016 21:13, Stefan Ram wrote:

>    But it is remarkable that both languages allow to write this
>    at a similar level of abstraction (without loop statements)
>    and concepts:
>
>        1st) fill a linear container with numbers from 1 to 49,
>        2nd) shuffle it, and then
>        3rd) print the first 6,
>
>    but both languages use different formalisms for it!

Now look at the (J)Ruby solution, that does exactly what you describe above:

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> (1..49).to_a.shuffle[1, 6]
=> [27, 42, 35, 1, 37, 18]

:-)

Cheers

	robert


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