Keynote: Writing your own programming language to understand Ruby better by José Valim

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Channel: Confreaks · 2012 · Science & Technology

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In this talk, José Valim will share what he has learned about Ruby through writing a small programming language. He will discuss the basic structure of a programming language, suggest improvements and debate about Ruby's parser, object model, methods, iterators and blocks.

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