I used to be a writer (love letter to Ruby)

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I used to be a writer (love letter to Ruby) Sergio Gil (@porras) lightning.io Poznań, PL

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I — Ruby

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What’s to be a writer?

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Caring

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“Talk about war in German, about business in English, about love in French”

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Bull"it Quevedo == Best Spanish writer ever because I say so

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Bullshit

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Pid = spawn(Fun). Pid ! Message. receive Pattern -> Expression; Pattern -> Expression end

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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

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(defmacro backwards (code) (reverse code)) (backwards ("wadus" print)) (print "wadus")

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http://github.com/porras/trenza

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you still I

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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 :)