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Deriving the Y Combinator in Ruby (keynote presentation from RubyConf) (youtube.com)
1 point by gwright on Nov 27, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


A fascinating example of higher-order function refactoring in Ruby leading to the derivation of the Y Combinator.

I was really impressed at how smoothly the live coding portion of the presentation proceeded despite the complexity of the material being presented.




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