LARubyConf: What if Shakespeare Wrote Ruby?

Did you know that Shakespeare wrote almost no direction into his plays? No fight direction. No staging. No notes to the songs. Of the 1700 words he created, there was no official dictionary. That’s right the author of some of the greatest literary works in history, which were filled with situational complexity, fight sequences and music, include NO documentation! How did he do it? In this talk, we're going "thee and thou." I'm going to give you a crash course in how: Shakespeare writes software.

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1. What if Shakespeare Wrote ?
2. ACTION ROUND
4. Adam Cuppy
8. github.com/acuppy @adamcuppy
9. Sir Nugget Amazemus @SirNug
10. Joy
11. Poet
12. Language is powerful
13. Software Writers - DHH (Creator of Ruby on Rails)
15. “i” before “e” (except after “c”)
16. Software Writers - DHH (Creator of Ruby on Rails)
20. Shakespeare.inspect
21. (8) 100 thousands!
22. 1,700 New Word Forms
23. Domain-specific Language
24. DSL?! NOOOO!!!
25. Expressive Conventions
26. * Meaningful * Demonstrative * Suggestive * revealing
28. ACTION ROUND
29. Metaphor (abstraction)
30. “My naked weapon”
31. “To Be or Not to Be” - Hamlet
32. “Let heaven kiss earth! now let not Nature's hand Keep the wild flood-confin'd! let order die! And let this world no longer be a stage…” - Henry IV; Part I
33. - MacBeth “Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of Hell…”
34. Leave Clues (conventions)
35. Iambic Pentameter (metered verse)
36. baBOOM / baBOOM / baBOOM / baBOOM / baBOOM.
37. When I / do COUNT / the CLOCK / that TELLS / the TIME
38. ’Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool! here comes two of the house of the Montagues 10 Beats
39. ’Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool! here comes two of the house of the Montagues 9 Beats!!
40. To BE or NOT to BE, THAT is the QUEStion:
44. class Character < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :play has_many :lines end Look Mom, a convention!
45. … and another User.where( happiness: 8..10 )
46. class Character def say(message) puts message end end abraham = Character.new abraham.say "Do you bite… sir?” # => "Do you bite...sir?"
47. class Character def say(message) puts message end def say!(message) say "#{message.upcase}!" end end abraham = Character.new abraham.say "Do you bite… sir?” # => "Do you bite...sir?" abraham.say! "Do you bite… sir?" # => "DO YOU BITE...SIR?!"
48. Harmony (composition)
49. ACTION ROUND
50. 1. Can’t Hold The Ball 2. Can’t Pass Back 3. Must Pass more than one
51. Harmony (composition)
52. sampson.when(:bite_thumb) do abraham.ask "Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?" abraham.draws_sword end abraham.when(:draws_sword) do benvolio.says "Part, fools! Put up your swords" abraham.retract_sword end sampson.bite_thumb # Hell breaks loose...
53. What if Shakespeare Wrote ?
54. 1. Establish conventions 2. Reinforce conventions 3. Layer conventions
55. “ Often people focus on the machines. They think, "By doing this, the machine will run more effectively.” But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming… We are the masters. They are the slaves.” - Matz (Creator of Ruby)
56. Language is powerful
57. speakerdeck.com/ acuppy
58. github.com/acuppy @adamcuppy