Ruby Conf 12 - Y Not- Adventures in Functional Programming by Jim Weirich
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Why it's on BrighterTube
Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via HackerTube (Karpathy's dataset of videos Hacker News recommends · 93% confidenceOne of the most-recommended programming talks on Hacker News; a rare live derivation that makes an abstract result from computability theory genuinely click, delivered by a much-loved teacher.
What you'll learn
Jim Weirich derives the Y combinator live, step by step, using nothing but Ruby lambdas, and along the way teaches the refactorings of lambda calculus.
Video by Confreaks, played through YouTube's embedded player.
Part of Ruby Conference 2012