# The Computer Language Shootout # http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ # recursive test, by Andreas Koenig, Sep 24 2006 ### Uses temp variables to help perl free memory earlier use strict; my($Ack,$Fib,$Tak); $Ack = sub { my ($x, $y) = @_; return $y + 1 if $x == 0; return $Ack->($x - 1, 1) if $y == 0; $Ack->($x - 1, $Ack->($x, $y - 1)); }; $Fib = sub { my ($n) = @_; return 1 if $n < 2; $Fib->($n - 2) + $Fib->($n - 1); }; $Tak = sub { my ($x, $y, $z) = @_; if ($y < $x) { my $z1 = $Tak->($x - 1.0, $y, $z); my $z2 = $Tak->($y - 1.0, $z, $x); my $z3 = $Tak->($z - 1.0, $x, $y); return $Tak->($z1, $z2, $z3); } else { return $z; } }; my $n = ($ARGV[0] || 0) - 1; printf "Ack(%d,%d): %d\n", 3, $n + 1, $Ack->(3, $n + 1); printf "Fib(%.1f): %.1f\n", 28.0 + $n, $Fib->(28.0 + $n); printf "Tak(%d,%d,%d): %d\n", $n * 3, $n * 2, $n, $Tak->($n * 3, $n * 2, $n); printf "Fib(%d): %d\n", 3, $Fib->(3); printf "Tak(%.1f,%.1f,%.1f): %.1f\n", 3.0,2.0,1.0, $Tak->(3.0,2.0,1.0);