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Ruby.rewrite(Ruby)
Summary
In this RubyFringe talk, Reginald Braithwaite shows how to write Ruby that reads, writes, and rewrites Ruby. The demos include extending the Ruby language with conditional expressions, new forms of evaluation such as call-by-name and call-by-need, and more.
Bio
Reginald Braithwaite was the tech lead on the team that created JProbe Threadalyzer, a tool that did automatic detection of potential threading-related bugs. Shortly after that he became Program Manager for the suite of JProbe tools and then Development Manager. He is a speaker at conferences like RubyFringe and MeshU. He is author of the Invocation Construction Kit and Rewrite for Ruby.
About the conference
RubyFringe is an avant-garde conference for developers that are excited about emerging Ruby projects and technologies. They're mounting a unique and eccentric gathering of the people and projects that are driving things forward in our community.
Community comments
A few links
by Reg Braithwaite,
Re: A few links
by Stefan Tilkov,
Re: A few links
by Debasish Ghosh,
nice work reg
by tim b,
A few links
by Reg Braithwaite,
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The slides: on github and on flickr.
, or:And the gem: rewrite.rubyforge.org
Re: A few links
by Stefan Tilkov,
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Really, really cool stuff.
nice work reg
by tim b,
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this talk makes me want to write ruby code again
Re: A few links
by Debasish Ghosh,
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Thanks for Rewrite .. this will change the way people think in Ruby ..