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Andrea O. K. Wright
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Description:
We won't just look at how to use projects that bridge Ruby and functional languages, we'll walk through the lower-level code that allows the inter-language communication to happen.
We'll explore different approaches to language interoperability ranging from accessing libraries through universal protocols to embedding foreign syntax in a host source file.
We'll also discuss techniques for ensuring that your polyglot applications won't read like bad translations and behave in unexpected ways.
Links: Website
Some real work and real content here. But far too may slides and TOO much content. It's really three talks in one. Integrating Ruby with any one of the languages (Erlang, Scala and F#) could have been a talk all by itself. Interleaving all three is like having a whirlwind tour with no opportunity to figure out why you're onthe tour in the first place.
If you ARE interested in integrating Ruby with any of these three languages, download the slides from the RubyNation web site. She's got all sorts of examples for you.