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This is a part of a blog post series about “useless” (or: controversial) syntax elements that emerged in recent Ruby version. The goal of the series is not...

A decade ago I first presented a lightning talk entitled Cool Code. This short talk evolved into a full talk whose iterations I presented over the next half decade. The focus? Code that, for some reason or other, can be considered cool. For example, code that has played a significant role in historical events, such as the source for the Apollo Guidance Computer. Or code that is audacious — if not seemingly impossible — given its constraints, such as David Horne’s 1K chess. There is code that is both simple and profound, such as Peter Norvig’s fits-on-a-slide spelling corrector. And c...