sprk2012/sprk2012-cfp — pull request #18 by shugo (2012-05-17 08:46:00+00:00)
Title: shugo: Purely functional programming in Ruby

Ruby has some features for functional programming such as blocks; however, Ruby is a very imperative language and purely functional programming is not so common in Ruby. This talk will illustrate how you can write purely functional code in Ruby (e.g., [persistent data structures](https://github.com/shugo/immutable), [lazy evaluation](https://github.com/shugo/immutable/blob/master/lib/immutable/promise.rb)).