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[SLIGHTLY OT] programmers can be humans and nice

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pietro ferrari

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Nov 9, 2007, 8:56:05 AM11/9/07
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Hello fellow rubyists,

I'm sending rough translation of a message posted on the brasilian
ruby forum rubyonbr.org. I hope you like it as much as we did.

"Good morning to the participants of RubyOnBr. Yesterday I watched
Shairon's talk on an event. In fact, I didn't go there to learn Ruby.
I'm a psychologist and public servant of the federal government. I
went there to watch a friend's talk. I arrived earlier and saw a guy
talking about a human and programming language, the act of thinking,
linguistics, grammar, "semiotics", cognitive systems, and other
sciences I had no idea computing studied. He said "you learn ruby
without even wanting," I didn't understand, and he complemented with
an analogy that parodies Descartes "you think on the program,
therefore it exists."

I then asked my son to install the program that understands ruby the
"irb," I grabbed a manual on the internet and started reading,
thinking and "programming." I got very happy for not knowing to
program and "playing" of being a programmer, I am 53 years old felling
capable, and as the speaker said "expressing the thought on a
program."

I'm only saying this here because I got very excited and reading the
forum I saw that programmers can "be humans and nice."

A hug to all and thanks for this experience."

John Joyce

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Nov 9, 2007, 11:26:16 AM11/9/07
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Pietro,
Welcome to the joy of Ruby!
It makes "getting it" a little bit easier.

Ryan Davis

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Nov 9, 2007, 1:05:21 PM11/9/07
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On Nov 9, 2007, at 05:56 , pietro ferrari wrote:

> "Good morning to the participants of RubyOnBr. Yesterday I watched
> Shairon's talk on an event. In fact, I didn't go there to learn Ruby.
> I'm a psychologist and public servant of the federal government. I
> went there to watch a friend's talk. I arrived earlier and saw a guy
> talking about a human and programming language, the act of thinking,
> linguistics, grammar, "semiotics", cognitive systems, and other
> sciences I had no idea computing studied. He said "you learn ruby
> without even wanting," I didn't understand, and he complemented with
> an analogy that parodies Descartes "you think on the program,
> therefore it exists."

this sounds awesome... now if only you'd translate the entire talk.
I'd love to see it but I don't know portuguese at all.

what event was it?


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