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Programming with Nothing (2011) [video] (rubymanor.org)
40 points by _qc3o on Nov 3, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3343205

This talk is old now, but I’m happy to answer any questions.

Someone recently did some really nice sketchnotes: https://twitter.com/deejaygraham/status/528220110331596800


Thanks for sharing those notes, it's awesome! The style of the notes remind me to the Feynman learning technique. I tried it once and still remember everything. For me it was a surprisingly fruitful way of learning.


Reminds me to this implementation on js: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/03/list-out-of-lambda/

Lambda is pretty cool.


This is the detailed text version http://codon.com/programming-with-nothing


A nice demonstration of lambda calculus using Church Encoding in Ruby, without saying that that's what he's doing.

I guess at the end of the video, he will probably reveal what the thing he's been doing is called.


I saw Tom give this talk at Ruby Manor. It melted my brain, but it was completely worth it, and challenged lots of assumptions I had about programming but never realised I had. Highly recommended!




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