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How Ruby Programmed Me

How Ruby Programmed Me

Closing keynote in RubyConf Uruguay 2013

Jano González

March 23, 2013
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  1. HOW RUBY
    PROGRAMMED ME

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  2. @janogonzalez

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  3. @hop_in

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  4. @dynlangchile

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  5. @dynlangchile

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  6. LANGUAGE
    &
    THOUGHT

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  7. LANGUAGE
    SHAPES OUR
    THOUGHT
    HOW

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  8. CHICKEN
    /
    EGG

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  9. DISCLAIMER

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  10. NOT A
    LINGUIST

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  11. NOT A
    NEUROSCIENTIST

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  12. NOT A
    PHILOSOPHER

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  13. JUST MY
    EXPERIENCE

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  14. AND OPINIONS

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  15. DON’T WORRY

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  16. PROGRAMMER’S
    BRAIN

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  17. OUR BRAIN

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  18. LANGUAGES
    SHAPE YOUR
    THOUGHT
    WHICH

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  19. THE PROBLEM

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  20. “Ars longa, vita brevis”
    –Hippocrates

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  21. HOW TO CHOOSE

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  22. “A language that doesn't affect
    the way you think about
    programming, is not worth
    knowing.”
    –Alan Perlis

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  23. PARADIGMS

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  24. SINTAX

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  25. IDIOMS

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  26. COMMUNITY

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  27. RUBY

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  28. BLOCKS
    File.open('my.txt').each do |line|
    puts line if line =~ /jano/
    end

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  29. JAVASCRIPT

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  30. PROTOTYPES
    function Person(name) {
    this.name = name;
    }
    Person.protoype.sayHi = function() {
    return “Hi, I’m “ + this.name;
    };
    var jano = new Person(‘Jano’);
    jano.sayHi();

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  31. PYTHON

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  32. 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

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  33. LISP

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  34. MACROS
    (defmacro for ((var start stop) &body body)
    (let ((gstop (gensym)))
    `(do ((,var ,start (1+ ,var))
    (,gstop ,stop))
    ((> ,var ,gstop))
    ,@body)))

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  35. HASKELL

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  36. PATTERN MATCHING
    map _ [] = []
    map f (x:xs) = f x : map f xs

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  37. FORTH

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  38. STACK BASED
    : STAR! ( -- )
    42 EMIT ;
    : STARS!( n -- )
    0 DO STAR LOOP ;
    CR 7 STARS

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  39. REMIX IT!

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  40. LANGUAGES
    SHAPE YOUR
    THOUGHT
    LET

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  41. “The determined Real
    Programmer can write
    FORTRAN programs in any
    language.”
    –Ed Post

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  42. “The determined Real
    Programmer can write
    FORTRAN programs in any
    language.”
    –Ed Post
    close-minded?
    C, Ruby, Lisp, etc

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  43. ARE YOU CHUCK?

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  44. ॳ৺

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  45. BEGINNER’S
    MIND

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  46. OPENNESS

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  47. A CUP OF TEA

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  48. EMPTY YOUR CUP

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  49. कഁ཭

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  50. कഁ཭

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  51. PROTECT
    /
    OBEY
    SHU

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  52. कഁ཭

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  53. DETACH
    /
    DISGRESS
    HA

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  54. कഁ཭

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  55. LEAVE
    /
    SEPARATE
    RI

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  57. HEY! THIS IS A
    RUBY
    CONFERENCE

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  58. RUBY
    &
    MY BRAIN

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  59. RUBY
    CHANGED
    MY BRAIN
    HOW

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  60. A TALE OF TWO
    DEVELOPERS

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  61. HACKER
    V/S
    THINKER

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  62. HACKER

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  63. GET THINGS
    DONE
    HACKER

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  64. FAST
    HACKER

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  65. HACKS
    HACKER

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  66. MAINTENANCE
    NIGHTMARE
    HACKER

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  67. NEEDS MORE DUCT TAPE

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  68. THINKER

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  69. THINKS ABOUT
    ABSTRACTIONS
    THINKER

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  70. THINKS ABOUT
    MANTAINABILITY
    THINKER

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  71. TOO MANY
    ABSTRACTIONS
    THINKER

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  72. ANALYSIS
    PARALYSIS
    THINKER

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  73. NEEDS MORE LAYERS

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  74. MY STORY

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  75. THE HACKER YEARS

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  76. THE HACKER YEARS

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  77. THE LEARNING YEARS

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  78. THE UML YEARS

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  79. THE UML YEARS

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  80. THE HACKER
    WAS GONE

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  81. UML, RUP, GoF,
    XML, ETC.

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  82. STOCKHOLM
    SYNDROME

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  83. EVOLUTION?

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  84. THE ONE TRUE WAY™

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  85. THE PATH?

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  86. FEAR

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  87. I WAS SO
    WRONG!

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  88. EVERYDAY LIFE
    IS THE PATH

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  89. ENTER
    RUBY

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  90. SMALLTALK IN
    PERL’S DISGUISE

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  91. HAPPY
    THINKER

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  92. 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

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  93. OMG! GoF NEVER
    WAS SO EASY

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  94. HAPPY
    HACKER

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  95. HACKER
    $1 if str ~= /(foo)+/

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  96. ONE LINERS FTW!

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  97. HACKER

    THINKER

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  98. LET’S WORK
    TOGETHER

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  99. HARMONY

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  100. HARMONY
    (1..42).select(&:even?).
    map { |n| n * 2 }.
    reduce(&:*)

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  101. THE PATH IS
    NO PATH

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  102. WEIRD
    FACT

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  103. (EVERY DEVELOPER IS A
    MANAGER)

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  104. (OMG)

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  105. RUBY
    &
    MY LIFE

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  106. RUBY
    CHANGED
    MY LIFE
    HOW

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  107. NEW GIGS

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  108. CONFERENCES

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  109. CONFERENCES

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  110. NEW FRIENDS

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  111. CRAZY FRIENDS

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  112. I

    .RB

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  113. I

    .UY

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  114. I

    .AR

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  115. RUBY
    &
    YOUR LIFE

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  116. RUBY
    CHANGE
    YOUR LIFE
    LET

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  117. PROGRAMMING
    CHANGE
    YOUR LIFE
    LET

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  118. FORK & MERGE

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  119. LEARN

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  120. HAVE
    FUN

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  121. SHARE

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  122. (AND REPEAT)
    loop do
    learn
    have_fun
    share
    end

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  123. THANKS!

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