THE VIDEO SHELF · lambda calculus
Ruby Manor 3 - Programming with Nothing by Tom Stuart
Tom Stuart's Ruby Manor 3 talk builds FizzBuzz using nothing but Ruby lambdas, working through Church encodings of numbers, booleans and data structures. It is a hands-on introduction to lambda calculus.
Why HN readers recommended it
Strongly recommended in lambda calculus and Y-combinator threads as a mind-expanding half hour that clarifies the ideas.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Confreaks
- Topic
- lambda calculus
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2013–2019
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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If you are curious about the topic, I strongly recommend watching these videos: Y Not- Adventures in Functional Programming by Jim Weirich [LINK] Programming with Nothing by Tom Stuart [VIDEO]
mekishizufu on Hacker News · 2013-11
In What is a y-combinator? (2008)For anyone who finds this interesting, I cannot recommend enough investing a half hour in watching the "Programming With Nothing" talk: [VIDEO] In it, the speaker implements fizzbuzz using only lambda calculus (making significant use of church encoding).
gamegoblin on Hacker News · 2014-09
In Church NumeralsAn awesome video which changed my perspective towards lambda calculus and programming in general: programming with nothing: [VIDEO]
tacticiankerala on Hacker News · 2015-04
In A Short and Painless Introduction to the Lambda Calculus [pdf]
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