Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
How Ruby Programmed Me
Search
Sponsored
·
Your Podcast. Everywhere. Effortlessly.
Share. Educate. Inspire. Entertain. You do you. We'll handle the rest.
→
Jano González
March 23, 2013
Programming
540
11
Share
How Ruby Programmed Me
Closing keynote in RubyConf Uruguay 2013
Jano González
March 23, 2013
More Decks by Jano González
See All by Jano González
Containerizing your monolith
janogonzalez
0
500
Migrando a Microservicios
janogonzalez
1
350
Extracting services from a monolith
janogonzalez
3
290
¿Después de 10 años, realmente entiendo esta industria?
janogonzalez
3
530
Microservices in Practice
janogonzalez
7
720
Two programmers in one
janogonzalez
1
230
The Bipolar Programmer
janogonzalez
4
660
Ruby for your two internal programmers
janogonzalez
4
300
Ruby for Java minds
janogonzalez
4
1.1k
Other Decks in Programming
See All in Programming
密結合なバックエンドから TypeScript のコードを生成する
kemuridama
1
380
TypeScriptだけでAIエージェントを作る フロント・エージェント・インフラのフルスタック実践
har1101
6
1.2k
分析エージェント精度向上における データアナリストの役割
oura_shoya
0
130
Hive Metastoreを通して学ぶIceberg REST Catalog ― 仕様から実装まで
okumin
0
290
Sans tests, vos agents ne sont pas fiables
nabondance
0
170
Augmenting AI with the Power of Jakarta EE
ivargrimstad
0
310
ReactとSvelteのその先、Ripple-TS / Beyond React and Svelte: Ripple-TS
ssssota
3
1.5k
権限チェックの一貫性を型で守る TypeScript による多層防御
mnch
4
920
ふつうのFeature Flag実践入門
irof
6
3.2k
不変条件と整合性境界—ビジネスが決める設計判断と実現パターン / Invariants and Consistency Boundaries
nrslib
11
2.9k
サーバーレスで作る、動画データ管理基盤
oyasumipants
0
310
デフォルト運用のCodeRabbit、1年で何が変わったか / How CodeRabbit Changed Our Code Review in 1 Year
bake0937
1
110
Featured
See All Featured
The innovator’s Mindset - Leading Through an Era of Exponential Change - McGill University 2025
jdejongh
PRO
1
180
How to build a perfect <img>
jonoalderson
1
5.5k
JavaScript: Past, Present, and Future - NDC Porto 2020
reverentgeek
52
5.9k
Kristin Tynski - Automating Marketing Tasks With AI
techseoconnect
PRO
0
260
ReactJS: Keep Simple. Everything can be a component!
pedronauck
666
130k
Have SEOs Ruined the Internet? - User Awareness of SEO in 2025
akashhashmi
0
350
Gemini Prompt Engineering: Practical Techniques for Tangible AI Outcomes
mfonobong
2
410
Fashionably flexible responsive web design (full day workshop)
malarkey
408
66k
The Straight Up "How To Draw Better" Workshop
denniskardys
239
140k
Fight the Zombie Pattern Library - RWD Summit 2016
marcelosomers
234
17k
From Legacy to Launchpad: Building Startup-Ready Communities
dugsong
0
220
Building a A Zero-Code AI SEO Workflow
portentint
PRO
0
540
Transcript
HOW RUBY PROGRAMMED ME
@janogonzalez
@hop_in
@dynlangchile
@dynlangchile
LANGUAGE & THOUGHT
LANGUAGE SHAPES OUR THOUGHT HOW
CHICKEN / EGG
DISCLAIMER
NOT A LINGUIST
NOT A NEUROSCIENTIST
NOT A PHILOSOPHER
JUST MY EXPERIENCE
AND OPINIONS
DON’T WORRY
PROGRAMMER’S BRAIN
OUR BRAIN
LANGUAGES SHAPE YOUR THOUGHT WHICH
THE PROBLEM
“Ars longa, vita brevis” –Hippocrates
HOW TO CHOOSE
“A language that doesn't affect the way you think about
programming, is not worth knowing.” –Alan Perlis
PARADIGMS
SINTAX
IDIOMS
COMMUNITY
RUBY
BLOCKS File.open('my.txt').each do |line| puts line if line =~ /jano/
end
JAVASCRIPT
PROTOTYPES function Person(name) { this.name = name; } Person.protoype.sayHi =
function() { return “Hi, I’m “ + this.name; }; var jano = new Person(‘Jano’); jano.sayHi();
PYTHON
INDENTATION def median(pool): copy = sorted(pool) size = len(copy) if
size % 2 == 1: return copy[(size - 1) / 2] else: return (copy[size/2 - 1] + copy[size/2]) / 2
LISP
MACROS (defmacro for ((var start stop) &body body) (let ((gstop
(gensym))) `(do ((,var ,start (1+ ,var)) (,gstop ,stop)) ((> ,var ,gstop)) ,@body)))
HASKELL
PATTERN MATCHING map _ [] = [] map f (x:xs)
= f x : map f xs
FORTH
STACK BASED : STAR! ( -- ) 42 EMIT ;
: STARS!( n -- ) 0 DO STAR LOOP ; CR 7 STARS
REMIX IT!
LANGUAGES SHAPE YOUR THOUGHT LET
“The determined Real Programmer can write FORTRAN programs in any
language.” –Ed Post
“The determined Real Programmer can write FORTRAN programs in any
language.” –Ed Post close-minded? C, Ruby, Lisp, etc
ARE YOU CHUCK?
ॳ৺
BEGINNER’S MIND
OPENNESS
A CUP OF TEA
EMPTY YOUR CUP
कഁ
कഁ
PROTECT / OBEY SHU
कഁ
DETACH / DISGRESS HA
कഁ
LEAVE / SEPARATE RI
None
HEY! THIS IS A RUBY CONFERENCE
RUBY & MY BRAIN
RUBY CHANGED MY BRAIN HOW
A TALE OF TWO DEVELOPERS
HACKER V/S THINKER
HACKER
GET THINGS DONE HACKER
FAST HACKER
HACKS HACKER
MAINTENANCE NIGHTMARE HACKER
NEEDS MORE DUCT TAPE
THINKER
THINKS ABOUT ABSTRACTIONS THINKER
THINKS ABOUT MANTAINABILITY THINKER
TOO MANY ABSTRACTIONS THINKER
ANALYSIS PARALYSIS THINKER
NEEDS MORE LAYERS
MY STORY
THE HACKER YEARS
THE HACKER YEARS
THE LEARNING YEARS
THE UML YEARS
THE UML YEARS
THE HACKER WAS GONE
UML, RUP, GoF, XML, ETC.
STOCKHOLM SYNDROME
EVOLUTION?
THE ONE TRUE WAY™
THE PATH?
FEAR
I WAS SO WRONG!
EVERYDAY LIFE IS THE PATH
ENTER RUBY
SMALLTALK IN PERL’S DISGUISE
HAPPY THINKER
THINKER class AccountProtectionProxy def initialize(real_account, owner_name) @subject = real_account @owner_name
= owner_name end def method_missing(name, *args) check_access @subject.send( name, *args ) end ... end
OMG! GoF NEVER WAS SO EASY
HAPPY HACKER
HACKER $1 if str ~= /(foo)+/
ONE LINERS FTW!
HACKER ❤ THINKER
LET’S WORK TOGETHER
HARMONY
HARMONY (1..42).select(&:even?). map { |n| n * 2 }. reduce(&:*)
THE PATH IS NO PATH
WEIRD FACT
(EVERY DEVELOPER IS A MANAGER)
(OMG)
RUBY & MY LIFE
RUBY CHANGED MY LIFE HOW
NEW GIGS
CONFERENCES
CONFERENCES
NEW FRIENDS
CRAZY FRIENDS
I ❤ .RB
I ❤ .UY
I ❤ .AR
RUBY & YOUR LIFE
RUBY CHANGE YOUR LIFE LET
PROGRAMMING CHANGE YOUR LIFE LET
FORK & MERGE
LEARN
HAVE FUN
SHARE
(AND REPEAT) loop do learn have_fun share end
THANKS!