How a language reflects its people (Brighton Ruby)

> The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
– Wittgenstein

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1. “ Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt. – Wittgenstein
2. “ The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. – Wittgenstein
3. HOW A LANGUAGE REFLECTS ITS PEOPLE Alex Coles | Brighton Ruby July 2017
4. WHY RUBY?
5. WE LIKE RUBY
6. WE ❤ RUBY
7. HUMAN
8. Language People World
10. Language People World Computing
11. PEOPLE TO LANGUAGE LANGUAGE TO PEOPLE LANGUAGE TO LANGUAGE PEOPLE TO COMPUTING COMPUTING TO PEOPLE PEOPLE TO COMPUTING TO PEOPLE
12. HELLO BRIGHTON
13. ABOUT ME
14. @MYABC Alex Coles Oxford, England
15. EURUCAMP.ORG JRUBYCONF.EU
16. TRAILBLAZER.IO
18. PEOPLE TO LANGUAGE
19. LANGUAGES ➤ Natural - e.g. English, Spanish ➤ Constructed - e.g. Esperanto ➤ Formal - e.g. Algebra, JavaScript
20. NATURAL
21. HISTORY
24. POLITICS AND COMMERCE
25. POST-TRUTH BREXIT FLAT WHITE
26. REFORM AND PLANNING
27. תירבע
29. KAURNA
32. INDIVIDUALS
33. THE BARD Creator of many words
34. HAPAX LEGOMENON
35. MATZ Creator of Ruby
36. COMMUNITY
37. LANGUAGE TO PEOPLE
38. SHADES OF GREY
41. WELTANSCHAUUNG
42. Edward Sapir | Benjamin Lee Whorf
43. LANGUAGE AFFECTS WORLD VIEW
44. LANGUAGE DETERMINES WORLD VIEW
45. Wilhelm von Humboldt
46. RUBY SYNTAX
48. RSpec.describe 'my Ruby code' do it_behaves_like 'the English language' end RSpec.describe Boomerang do subject(:boomerang) { Boomerang.new } it_behaves_like 'a hunting tool' it_behaves_like 'a percussion instrument' it 'is designed to be thrown' do expect(boomerang).to be_throwable end end
49. PUNCTUATION
50. WHAT THERE IS ➤ ? question mark ➤ ! bang (exclamation mark)
51. WHAT THERE ISN’T ➤ ; semi-colons ➤ () parentheses (sometimes) ➤ {} braces (sometimes)
52. UNICODE
55. LTR VS RTL
57. WORD ORDER
58. SUBJECT VERB OBJECT
59. ➤ The man eats fish ➤ L'homme mange le poisson ➤ a = 2 ➤ a = 2 + 2 SUBJECT VERB ORDER
60. VERB SUBJECT OBJECT
61. LOGIC AND ARITHMETIC NOTATION prefix + 2 2 “Polish” infix 2 + 2 postfix 2 2 + “Reverse Polish”
62. ➤ (def x 5) ➤ (+ 2 4)
63. OPERATORS
64. Logical Operators ➤ and ➤ or ➤ not Special Operators ➤ defined?
65. LANGUAGE TO LANGUAGE
66. LANGUAGES IN THE FIFTIES ➤ Short Code ➤ Autocode ➤ FORTRAN ➤ FLOW-MATIC
67. LANGUAGES IN THE SIXTIES ➤ ALGOL ➤ LISP ➤ C
68. RUBY PRIOR ART ➤ Perl ➤ Smalltalk ➤ Eiffel ➤ Ada ➤ LISP
69. PEOPLE TO COMPUTING
70. LOW-LEVEL LANGUAGES ➤ Machine Code ➤ Assembly
72. NO CONCEPTS
73. SIGNALS AND NEURONS
74. HIGHER
75. COMPUTING TO PEOPLE
76. TECHNOLOGY
77. PERSIST
78. AI
79. HUMAN EFFECT
80. …
81. PEOPLE TO COMPUTING TO PEOPLE
82. SOFTWARE =
 CODE + DOCUMENTATION
83. SELF-DOCUMENTING CODE
84. CONCLUSION
85. WHY RUBY?
86. MINSWAN
87. THANK YOU
88. @MYABC