On Jun 7, 2010, at 17:26 , Jonathan Badger wrote: > 1) Did everybody but me know about map, select, and inject? I've only > just discovered them through analogy to similar features in functional > languages and think they're great.
Yes. :-) I think if you look at popular, idiomatic Ruby libraries, they all use a reasonable share of functional constructs. > 2) Would there be interest in a presentation about functional > programming in Ruby? After the May meeting, I was discussing this very idea with a couple of chaps. We were talking about computer science more generally, and functional programming in particular, and how it would be worth doing some "Computer Science for the layman" stuff for the fair number of developers in the group who never took Computer Science. Much of it would be some basics of functional programming for people whose first language was Java, poor souls. I think there might actually be a book in the idea of Useful Computer Science for Ruby Programmers Who Never Took Comp Sci In College. Only you'd need a better title. -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
