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

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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

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Transcript

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

    Sergio Gil (@porras) lightning.io Poznań, PL

  2. I — Ruby

  3. What’s to be a writer?

  4. Caring

  5. “Talk about war in German, about business in English, about

    love in French”
  6. None
  7. None

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

    so

  9. Bullshit

  10. None

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

    Pattern -> Expression end

  12. 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

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

  14. ??

  15. http://github.com/porras/trenza

  16. you still I

  17. 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 :)