Reading notes
Ruby Conf 12 - Y Not- Adventures in Functional Programming by Jim Weirich
Jim Weirich's RubyConf 2012 talk derives the Y combinator step by step, live-coding in Ruby lambdas. It builds up an understanding of functional programming and lambda calculus from first principles.
Ideas to listen for
- 1functional programming
- 2lambda calculus
- 3ruby
Discussion context
Walks through the Y combinator and functional programming
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