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Programming with Nothing (2011) [video]
- scraplab 12y agoI 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!
- maninalift 12y agoA 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.
- fidz 12y agoReminds me to this implementation on js: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/03/list-out-of-lambda/ http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/03/list-out-of-lambda/ Lambda is pretty cool.
- torkale 12y agoThis is the detailed text version http://codon.com/programming-with-nothing http://codon.com/programming-with-nothing
- tomstuart 12y agoPreviously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3343205 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 https://twitter.com/deejaygraham/status/528220110331596800
- FractalNerve 12y agoThanks 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.