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“Python and Ruby” Language Futures Talk Slide Deck by Paul Prescod Now Online

Posted by Gerald on December 7, 2007

The slide deck from Paul Prescod’s short talk on “Ruby from a Pythonic Point of View” from the VanPyZ “Language Futures” Event resides now online.

Talk slides include:

  • (Arguably) Nice Ruby Syntax
  • Map/filter/reduce chaining
  • What is a block?
  • Blocks in Ruby are kind of like…
  • Simple blocks versus lambda
  • Ruby: bigger block
  • Python multiple lambda
  • Blocks and for-loops
  • Smalltalk does blocks better!
  • Ugly Rubyisms

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One Response to ““Python and Ruby” Language Futures Talk Slide Deck by Paul Prescod Now Online”

  1. Paul said

    December 7, 2007 at 2:19 am

    Just to be clear, the talk wasn’t really about language futures. It is a VERY brief talk about a few random aspects of Ruby from a Python programmer’s biased point of view.

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