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

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”
8. Bull"it Quevedo == Best Spanish writer ever because I say so
9. Bullshit
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 :)