Ruby: A Family History

I think the Ruby programming language beautifully combines some of the best ideas from LISP, Smalltalk, and Perl, and I’ve noticed many Ruby programmers aren’t aware of the heritage of those ideas.

So I gave a talk to explain some of the history behind Ruby at RailsConf 2018!

Video

Here’s a video—unfortunately the recording of me didn’t work so it’s just the slides with my voiceover.

Slides

Here’s the slides, with presenter notes included so you can skim and get the gist: