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Jano González
March 23, 2013
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Closing keynote in RubyConf Uruguay 2013
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Transcript
HOW RUBY PROGRAMMED ME
@janogonzalez
@hop_in
@dynlangchile
@dynlangchile
LANGUAGE & THOUGHT
LANGUAGE SHAPES OUR THOUGHT HOW
CHICKEN / EGG
DISCLAIMER
NOT A LINGUIST
NOT A NEUROSCIENTIST
NOT A PHILOSOPHER
JUST MY EXPERIENCE
AND OPINIONS
DON’T WORRY
PROGRAMMER’S BRAIN
OUR BRAIN
LANGUAGES SHAPE YOUR THOUGHT WHICH
THE PROBLEM
“Ars longa, vita brevis” –Hippocrates
HOW TO CHOOSE
“A language that doesn't affect the way you think about
programming, is not worth knowing.” –Alan Perlis
PARADIGMS
SINTAX
IDIOMS
COMMUNITY
RUBY
BLOCKS File.open('my.txt').each do |line| puts line if line =~ /jano/
end
JAVASCRIPT
PROTOTYPES function Person(name) { this.name = name; } Person.protoype.sayHi =
function() { return “Hi, I’m “ + this.name; }; var jano = new Person(‘Jano’); jano.sayHi();
PYTHON
INDENTATION def median(pool): copy = sorted(pool) size = len(copy) if
size % 2 == 1: return copy[(size - 1) / 2] else: return (copy[size/2 - 1] + copy[size/2]) / 2
LISP
MACROS (defmacro for ((var start stop) &body body) (let ((gstop
(gensym))) `(do ((,var ,start (1+ ,var)) (,gstop ,stop)) ((> ,var ,gstop)) ,@body)))
HASKELL
PATTERN MATCHING map _ [] = [] map f (x:xs)
= f x : map f xs
FORTH
STACK BASED : STAR! ( -- ) 42 EMIT ;
: STARS!( n -- ) 0 DO STAR LOOP ; CR 7 STARS
REMIX IT!
LANGUAGES SHAPE YOUR THOUGHT LET
“The determined Real Programmer can write FORTRAN programs in any
language.” –Ed Post
“The determined Real Programmer can write FORTRAN programs in any
language.” –Ed Post close-minded? C, Ruby, Lisp, etc
ARE YOU CHUCK?
ॳ৺
BEGINNER’S MIND
OPENNESS
A CUP OF TEA
EMPTY YOUR CUP
कഁ
कഁ
PROTECT / OBEY SHU
कഁ
DETACH / DISGRESS HA
कഁ
LEAVE / SEPARATE RI
None
HEY! THIS IS A RUBY CONFERENCE
RUBY & MY BRAIN
RUBY CHANGED MY BRAIN HOW
A TALE OF TWO DEVELOPERS
HACKER V/S THINKER
HACKER
GET THINGS DONE HACKER
FAST HACKER
HACKS HACKER
MAINTENANCE NIGHTMARE HACKER
NEEDS MORE DUCT TAPE
THINKER
THINKS ABOUT ABSTRACTIONS THINKER
THINKS ABOUT MANTAINABILITY THINKER
TOO MANY ABSTRACTIONS THINKER
ANALYSIS PARALYSIS THINKER
NEEDS MORE LAYERS
MY STORY
THE HACKER YEARS
THE HACKER YEARS
THE LEARNING YEARS
THE UML YEARS
THE UML YEARS
THE HACKER WAS GONE
UML, RUP, GoF, XML, ETC.
STOCKHOLM SYNDROME
EVOLUTION?
THE ONE TRUE WAY™
THE PATH?
FEAR
I WAS SO WRONG!
EVERYDAY LIFE IS THE PATH
ENTER RUBY
SMALLTALK IN PERL’S DISGUISE
HAPPY THINKER
THINKER class AccountProtectionProxy def initialize(real_account, owner_name) @subject = real_account @owner_name
= owner_name end def method_missing(name, *args) check_access @subject.send( name, *args ) end ... end
OMG! GoF NEVER WAS SO EASY
HAPPY HACKER
HACKER $1 if str ~= /(foo)+/
ONE LINERS FTW!
HACKER ❤ THINKER
LET’S WORK TOGETHER
HARMONY
HARMONY (1..42).select(&:even?). map { |n| n * 2 }. reduce(&:*)
THE PATH IS NO PATH
WEIRD FACT
(EVERY DEVELOPER IS A MANAGER)
(OMG)
RUBY & MY LIFE
RUBY CHANGED MY LIFE HOW
NEW GIGS
CONFERENCES
CONFERENCES
NEW FRIENDS
CRAZY FRIENDS
I ❤ .RB
I ❤ .UY
I ❤ .AR
RUBY & YOUR LIFE
RUBY CHANGE YOUR LIFE LET
PROGRAMMING CHANGE YOUR LIFE LET
FORK & MERGE
LEARN
HAVE FUN
SHARE
(AND REPEAT) loop do learn have_fun share end
THANKS!