Austin Ruby Meetup 1-17-2008

We had a good time at the meetup tonight. Steven and I busted out the laptops and shared some code and ideas. He had a nice rails app for learning Latin that supported a tagging architecture. I know next to nothing about rails so it was interesting to see the interactive console and scaffolding at work. We talked a bit about lisp compilation, writing, philosophy and open source vs. closed source. I demonstrated how you can specialize a method in SBCL using THE type declarations and the difference it makes in the generated machine code via DISASSEMBLE. As usual it was entertaining and enriching. If you’re in the Austin area and want to talk Ruby, Lisp, Python, C or whatever you should consider joining us.