Reinventhing Wheels of Future

RubyConf 2012 Keynote

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   Reinventhing Wheels of
   Future
   Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto
   @yukihiro_matz
   

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   I code, therefore I am.
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   I feel happy, when I code.
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   I feel nervous, when I stand here.
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5. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
   　
   Do you?
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6. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
   　
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7. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
   　
   Ruby started February 1993
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   as a scripting language for UNIX
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9. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
   　
   to replace Perl
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    But not really
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    I just wanted to create my own
    language
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12. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    Just for Fun
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13. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    Recently, a guy came and
    blamed me on Twitter
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    “Why did you invented Ruby,
    where we had Perl?”
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    “It was redundant, reinvention of
    the wheel”
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16. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    “It was waste of man-power that
    is limited resource”
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17. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    “So, many IT people feel
    negative about your work”
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18. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    What do you think?
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19. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    Give me a break
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20. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    Indeed we have limited resources
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21. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    Only 7 Billion people on Earth
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    Very few among them code
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    But it's not a bottleneck
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24. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    We have more rare resource
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25. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    It's Motivation
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    We are not machines
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27. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    We need driving force to
    accomplish great things
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28. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    What's your motivation?
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29. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    Fun?
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30. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    Profit?
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31. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    My motivation is love toward
    programming languages
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32. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    I love all programming languages
    on earth
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33. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    Including Fortran
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    Perl
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35. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    Even PHP
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    It might sound spooky
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37. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    No one should laugh at
    motivation
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38. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    Some may call it reinventing the
    wheel
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39. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    Go ahead, if you are motivated
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40. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    And it will introduce diversity
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41. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    Diversity is Good
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    It may require cost
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43. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    It might waste your time
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    But the world without diversity is
    unpleasant
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    What if we force people to focus
    on Perl?
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46. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    Like the world of 1984
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    Diversity is the cost for
    innovation
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    No one understands Innovation
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    Succeeded people don't
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    Failed people don't
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    No one
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52. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    We try
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53. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    Again
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54. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    and Again
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    until we make innovation
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    But we`d better predict the
    future
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    To raise the possibility of success
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    IT survivers will be
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60. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    IT survivers will be:
    language designers
    dev env implementors
    and high valued niche players
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    Language designers?
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    Sounds weird?
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    His outline:
    Programming will be
    fundamental literacy
    Easy tasks can be done by
    everybody
    Professionals (like us) should
    do harder tasks
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    Fair enough
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    But how can we be language
    designers?
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    How many language designers
    do you know?
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67. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    me
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    Guido
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    Larry
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    Rasmus
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    ?
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    Language Designer
    or Serial Killer?
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    You may not start making
    popular programming language
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    You may not implement a
    programming language
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    But you code
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    Your identity
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    You design
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    You design code
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    You design API
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    You design interface
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    They are languages
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    Dave Thomas
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    Programming is a process of
    designing your own DSL
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    In that sense, you can be
    language designers
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    Too few people care about
    design
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    The world is full of crappy
    designs
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    Shoe strings
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    I hate loosen strings
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    I hate tying them again & again
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    So I used superglue
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    The world is full of room for
    improvement
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    Go fix them
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    By starting new project
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    By participating to exising project
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    Code, make it happen
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    in good shape
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    Reinvent wheels
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98. Powered by Rabbit 1.0.8
    　
    Better wheels
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    Make the World better place
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     Be happy
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     I will
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     It was dark stormy night
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     in 1993
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     Almost 20 years ago
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     I had been happy for last 20
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     It always had been more than
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     I will try to make the world better
     place
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     by making Ruby even better
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     On Faburary 24th 2013
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     Ruby's 20th birthday
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     We will release Ruby 2.0
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     finally
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     2001
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     2003
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     2001 2003 2006
     2007 2010 2011
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     Of course you know that
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     But it is progressing steadly
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     It will be faster
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     It will be more reliable
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     More fun to use
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     keyword formal argument
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     Enumerable#lazy
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     Module#prepend
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     Refinement
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     Come join us
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     By using trunk
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     By reporting bugs
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     By fixing bugs
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     By sending pull-request
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     By porting your project to 2.0
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     We can make it better
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     We can make the world better
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     mruby
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     Summary
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     No matter which way you go
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     Be happy
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     Go as you motivated
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     Reinvent wheels
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     Fix shoe strings
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     Make the world better
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     I believe you can
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     Even if you don't
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     It's OK as long as you'd been
     happy
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     Happy hacking!
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     Thank you
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