Whither SmallScript? (was Re: Integer micro-benchmarks)

[Andrew Hunt]

On 28 Apr 2001 19:34:54 +0200, Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl> wrote:

> What about open("test.dat", "w").write ("Hello world")?

There are a bucket of shortcuts in Ruby that could do the 
same as the code I posted, including the equivilant of the call above.
I wasn't trying to show the shortest way to write Hello World, but rather
give a taste of what the language "looks like".

/\ndy