Friday Hacks #112 - Slaying the Dragon: Implementing a language in Ruby - NUS Hackers

Published on: Friday, 8 April 2016

Speaker: Jason Yeo

Talk Description:

Learning to write a programming language is considered a rite of passage for some programmers. And, it is also the most rewarding exercise as you will learn a whole lot about programming languages in general. Many might think it's a daunting task but Jason will show you otherwise by showing how to implement a simple language in Ruby and compile it to Rubinius bytecode. Be warned, only the brave and true will survive. Don't you worry though, no prior knowledge of parsing, lexing and programming language theory required. And lastly, don't forget to have fun.

Speaker Profile:

Jason Yeo flips bits and blows stacks at SourceClear (www.srcclr.com). Some of his interests include participating in pointless discussions about type systems, writing interpreters for languages that has no real world application, bashing languages that has real world applications and embedding easter eggs in talk descriptions.

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