From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-11-10T01:26:16+09:00
Subject: Re: [SLIGHTLY OT] programmers can be humans and nice

Pietro,
Welcome to the joy of Ruby!
It makes "getting it" a little bit easier.

On 11/9/07, pietro ferrari <pietro.ferrari@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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."
>
>