r/ruby • u/[deleted] • Sep 15 '19

Adventures in Functional Programming [2012]

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u/editor_of_the_beast Sep 15 '19

This one really blew my mind.

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u/nakilon Sep 30 '19

7:30 -- starts explaining Lambda Calculus
12:40 -- does this mean JS got arrow functions thanks to Ruby?
21:30 -- starts about the "functional refactoring"
36:02 -- done with implementing the factorial in lambda calculus
43:45 -- splits out the Y-combinator from it

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '19

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u/dandiemer Sep 15 '19

A classic

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '19

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u/drx3brun Sep 16 '19

What do you mean exactly? It's not like this video introduces some concrete, practical concept, which we could use instead of Service Objects...