Programming Language

In many ways software development is like a long, deep and really meta conversation with a friend. In my talk I discuss the ways language, vocabulary and domain specific discourse can limit or enhance your productivity as a developer.

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1. Programming Language
2. Move fast, and break things
4. Short term gain, long term loss Short term loss, long term gain
5. Move fast, and break things
6. Speed != Productivity
7. Move fast, and break things
8. Programming Language
10. Language is a limiting factor to the world around us.
11. What we can't express with words, we can't comprehend and by knowing this we can reason that by keeping an open mind, learning new languages and experimenting with different ways of solving problems we can achieve a deeper level of understanding in our work. Dave Thomas, Yow Connected 2015
12. The ‘Desktop’ metaphor
14. The totality of codified language (vocabulary) used in a given field of intellectual enquiry and social practice, such as legal discourse, medical discourse, religious discourse, et cetera Discourse
15. Discourse defines
 social boundaries, creates meaning and affects perspective
17. Language = Effectiveness
18. Domain Specific Languages (DSLs)
19. • HKObjectType • HKSampleType • HKWorkoutType • HKCharacteristicType • HKCorrelationType • HKQuantityType • HKStatisticsQuery • HKStatisticsCollectionQuery • HKSampleQuery
20. Whiteboard before you code
23. Pull 
 Requests
24. • Explain the problem • How you’re solving it • Why your solution is viable • How you know your solution solves it
25. github.com/Danger
28. Time is just an excuse bad developers give that are too scared to hustle and be better.
29. Confusing, unreadable code is hard to change.
30. Hard to change means more time, more complexity, more money, and less time for exciting features.
31. Machines will compile garbage and they will compile well- considered code just the same.
32. (from Ancient Greek: σημαντικός sēmantikós, "significant") is the study of meaning. It focuses on the relationship between signifiers—like words, phrases, signs, and symbols—and what they stand for, their denotation. Semantics
33. I Shall Call It.. SomethingManager 29 Mar 2006, Jeff Atwood
34. Names aren’t just names, Names save time
35. Language is no longer regarded as peripheral to our grasp of the world we live in, but as central to it. Words are not mere vocal labels or communicational adjuncts superimposed upon an already given order of things. Course in General Linguistics
36. Learn new languages, and new concepts of thought
37. Be more literate
38. Buzzfeed, Junkee, Twitter, Memes, Listicles Novels, biographies, blogs and diverse literature. Read Less Read More
39. Write a Blog
40. Give public presentations!
41. Language is the framework for everything we do as Software Engineers. Conquer it and conquer the lies 
 of ‘Speed’
42. Thank you