[Noisebridge-discuss] ML Wednesday: code up a neuron!

[Josh Myer]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 02:56:41PM -0700, Mikolaj Habryn wrote:
 
> I think most languages will look similar if written in accessible
> style. Real Python would say:
> 

That's why I wrote the ruby in the most naive form possible.  It's
like pseudocode with a slightly different syntax.

> import operator
> 
> def dot_product(a, b):
>   return sum(map(operator.mul, a, b))
>

I hate to yield the elegance plaque to python, but, well, it looks
like I must.  That's just nice, clean functional code.

The most functional version in ruby I could pull together:

def dot_product(a, b)
  a.zip(b).inject(0.0) { |s, x| s+x[0]*x[1] }
end
 
> Which just goes to show that most high-level languages look the same
> when written in real style too ;)
> 

Sadly, ruby looks less like real languages than python does here.
Drat.  It does smell kind of like a handicapped lisp, at least?
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