LARubyConf: What if Shakespeare Wrote Ruby?

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What if Shakespeare Wrote ?

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ACTION ROUND

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Adam Cuppy

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github.com/acuppy @adamcuppy

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Sir Nugget Amazemus @SirNug

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Joy

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Poet

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Language is powerful

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Software Writers - DHH (Creator of Ruby on Rails)

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“i” before “e” (except after “c”)

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Software Writers - DHH (Creator of Ruby on Rails)

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Shakespeare.inspect

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(8) 100 thousands!

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1,700 New Word Forms

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Domain-specific Language

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DSL?! NOOOO!!!

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Expressive Conventions

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* Meaningful * Demonstrative * Suggestive * revealing

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ACTION ROUND

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Metaphor (abstraction)

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“My naked weapon”

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“To Be or Not to Be” - Hamlet

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“Let heaven kiss earth! now let not Nature's hand Keep the wild flood-confin'd! let order die! And let this world no longer be a stage…” - Henry IV; Part I

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- MacBeth “Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of Hell…”

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Leave Clues (conventions)

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Iambic Pentameter (metered verse)

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baBOOM / baBOOM / baBOOM / baBOOM / baBOOM.

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When I / do COUNT / the CLOCK / that TELLS / the TIME

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’Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool! here comes two of the house of the Montagues 10 Beats

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’Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool! here comes two of the house of the Montagues 9 Beats!!

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To BE or NOT to BE, THAT is the QUEStion:

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class Character < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :play has_many :lines end Look Mom, a convention!

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… and another User.where( happiness: 8..10 )

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class Character def say(message) puts message end end abraham = Character.new abraham.say "Do you bite… sir?” # => "Do you bite...sir?"

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class Character def say(message) puts message end def say!(message) say "#{message.upcase}!" end end abraham = Character.new abraham.say "Do you bite… sir?” # => "Do you bite...sir?" abraham.say! "Do you bite… sir?" # => "DO YOU BITE...SIR?!"

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Harmony (composition)

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ACTION ROUND

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1. Can’t Hold The Ball 2. Can’t Pass Back 3. Must Pass more than one

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Harmony (composition)

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sampson.when(:bite_thumb) do abraham.ask "Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?" abraham.draws_sword end abraham.when(:draws_sword) do benvolio.says "Part, fools! Put up your swords" abraham.retract_sword end sampson.bite_thumb # Hell breaks loose...

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What if Shakespeare Wrote ?

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1. Establish conventions 2. Reinforce conventions 3. Layer conventions

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“ Often people focus on the machines. They think, "By doing this, the machine will run more effectively.” But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming… We are the masters. They are the slaves.” - Matz (Creator of Ruby)