How a language reflects its people (Brighton Ruby)

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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

9. None

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

17. None

18. PEOPLE TO LANGUAGE

19. LANGUAGES ➤ Natural - e.g. English, Spanish ➤ Constructed -

    e.g. Esperanto ➤ Formal - e.g. Algebra, JavaScript

20. NATURAL

21. HISTORY

22. None
23. None

24. POLITICS AND COMMERCE

25. POST-TRUTH BREXIT FLAT WHITE

26. REFORM AND PLANNING

27. תירבע

28. None

29. KAURNA

30. None
31. None

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

39. None
40. None

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

47. None

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

53. None
54. None

55. LTR VS RTL

56. None

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

71. None

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