From: pietro ferrari <pietro.ferrari@...>
Date: 2007-11-09T22:56:05+09:00
Subject: [SLIGHTLY OT] programmers can be humans and nice

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."