James Sral's Atlanta 12/14/2016 Ruby Users Group talk on the impact of Perl, Lisp, and Smalltalk on the Ruby language

1. A Smalltalk about Perl
with a Lisp
James Sral

2. Obligatory Section About Me
Things I love:
● Jesus
● My wife, Lauren
● My dog, Myka
● Music
● Coding!
Feel free to talk to me about anything after the presentation

3. One More Thing
Feel free to ask me questions during the talk!

5. Lisp

6. Perl

7. Smalltalk

8. ● Ahead of Its Time
● Multi-Paradigm: Functional, OO, Procedural
● REPL
● Metaprogramming!
● Simple Pieces
● Consistant
Lisp - A Love of Parentheses

9. Smalltalk
● One of the original Object Oriented Languages
● Message Passing
● Designed with People in Mind
● Truly Innovative
● SImple Constructs
● Alan Kay and Kent Beck
● Many Rubyists Used to Use Smalltalk

10. Perl
● Scripting - Getting Stuff Done
● “There is More Than One Way to Do It”
● Larry Wall - Matz’s Self-Described Programming Hero
● Community Can Improve a Technology
● Technology Can’t Improve a Community
● Having Fun! (Perl poems, Code Golf, Obfuscated Code)
● Still Adding a Lot to Perl5
● Balance Between Practicality and Innovation

11. Why does it matter?

12. All of these languages are still going strong!
(They’re not “dead”)

13. They no longer care about hype

14. Because they’re too busy doing things!

15. Yet, they continue to experiment

16. And, perhaps most importantly...

17. They have fun!

18. And that is great news!

19. Ruby is no longer the hot, new, trendy thing

20. And that’s ok!

21. We can continue to have our fun

22. But now we can also get real stuff done

23. And get paid to do it in Ruby!

24. Now the real fun begins!