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Sergio Gil
July 21, 2012
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I used to be a writer (love letter to Ruby)
Slides for my lightning talk in the lightning.io conference. Poznan, Poland, 21-7-2012
Sergio Gil
July 21, 2012
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Transcript
I used to be a writer (love letter to Ruby)
Sergio Gil (@porras) lightning.io Poznań, PL
I — Ruby
What’s to be a writer?
Caring
“Talk about war in German, about business in English, about
love in French”
None
None
Bull"it Quevedo == Best Spanish writer ever because I say
so
Bullshit
None
Pid = spawn(Fun). Pid ! Message. receive Pattern -> Expression;
Pattern -> Expression end
data Tree a = Empty | Node a (Tree a)
(Tree a) size :: Tree a -> Int size Empty = 0 size (Node _ t1 t2) = 1 + size t1 + size t2 elements :: Tree a -> [a] elements Empty = [] elements (Node x t1 t2) = x : elements t1 ++ elements t2
(defmacro backwards (code) (reverse code)) (backwards ("wadus" print)) (print "wadus")
??
http://github.com/porras/trenza
you still I
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliche http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_roll http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Berry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_de_Quevedo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doro_(musician) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_(programming_language)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_(programming_language) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braid Thank you :)