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Jan17Tue 12:00PM

Geekfest: Functional Programming in Ruby

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Ruby after 18+ Months of Clojure by Brian Marick

After eighteen or more months concentrating on Clojure, a Lisplike functional language, I'm once again focused on Ruby applications. This talk describes what I learned in the Land of Clojure and some of the ways in which that will affect my Ruby programming.

  • The boilerplate: what everyone must say about functional programming
  • Favoring basic types (especially hashes) over custom classes
  • Immutability (Hash#merge over hash#=, for example)
  • Lazy streams as a way of separating "how many" from "how"

Examples will use Ruby 1.9 syntax for lambdas and hashes, if that matters.

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Chicago, Illinois 60654
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