This one only took four hours to get to the first working version. The reason it took me so long is that I wanted to try to do it without doing the same conditional test more than once (also, I'm not good at this). It isn't very obfuscaturated:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; for my $num (1 .. 100) { my $mod3num = $num % 3; my $mod5num = $num % 5; my $result = ""; if ( $mod3num == 0 ) { $result .= "fizz"; } if ( $mod5num == 0 ) { $result .= "buzz"; } if ( $result =~ /z/ ) { print "[$num] $result\n"; } else { print "[$num] $num\n"; } }

Here's a different one I spent some of that four hours trying to do, then completed in 15 minutes the next day. It seems pretty annoying but I think it could be better:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; for my $n (1 .. 100) { my $nm3 = $n % 3; my $nm5 = $n % 5; print((!$nm3 && !$nm5) ? "[$n] fizzbuzz\n" : (!$nm5? "[$n] buzz\n" : (!$nm3? "[$n] fizz\n" : "[$n] $n\n"))) }

Questions:

  1. How bad is it?
  2. How much worse can it be?
  3. If I did this in an interview, would you hire me?
    1. Why would you do that to yourself?
  4. Which version offends the sensibilities more?
  5. What techniques for making my code more compact and less maintainable have I overlooked?

In reply to Rate my fizzbuzz by Vonunov

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