From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2007-11-10T03:05:21+09:00
Subject: Re: [SLIGHTLY OT] programmers can be humans and nice


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?