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So we get too far, here's what we need to do: you will not need your laptop, so go ahead and close it. The next thing is I want everybody to move down and in. Come on, let's do it! Close your laptop, move down and in. You won't need it, don't worry. Well, you should probably worry, but you just won't need it. Alright, as you all already know, my name is Adam Cuppy. I gave a talk yesterday, and now I'm going to abuse your time again today. This talk is about, 'What if Shakespeare wrote Ruby?' If you want to, you can tweet at me at Adam Cuppy on Twitter, or you can do that on Instagram or wherever you like. Hit me up; I'd love to hear how your experience went.
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First and foremost, I want to relay a couple of important things to you, and that is my objective here. I have some help with the Chinese translation, so if any of these are wrong, blame me, not Mark, entirely. I, in fact, have no idea what that says; it could say anything and I'd be like, 'Yeah, totally!' My objective today is simple: to bring joy to you. That's what this talk is ultimately about—joy. When I decided long ago to become an engineer, I'll actually take a step back. I started as a professional actor and I have a degree in acting. I didn’t take a single class in any form of computer science or computer engineering. So all the talks about education and so forth totally resonate with me because I actually have a degree in theatre.
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More specifically, I studied and worked professionally at a Shakespeare Festival, so I'm quite qualified when it comes to this. But here's the thing I learned: everything we do in life is meant to create an experience for someone or something else. So today, I'm going to create an experience that brings you joy. Fair enough? Very good. You see, the thing is we have people in our lives that we care very deeply about. There are friends and acquaintances, some of whom are our Ruby friends. Some are random people we meet in Times Square whose names we don’t know, and then there are the people we meet here today. These are our Ruby friends, the ones I’m going to bring joy to today.
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And then there are very important, very special people in our lives. If you notice at the back of the room, the lady in this photo is my wife, right there, who came with me. Yep, she’s a sucker! Then there’s this—of course, I am that guy. If you didn’t realize it, I dated a children’s theatre, and that’s my wife right there, Julia. We met doing theater. This show isn’t specifically what we met doing, but anyway, as a professional actor, I had the great opportunity of playing the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz.
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To give a little background: that role involved a head-to-toe polyester bodysuit with full makeup, done outdoors in the middle of summer. The temperature was, on average, 95 degrees outside. Sorry, I don't know what that translates to in Celsius, but it's probably really high up there—very, very hot! In fact, I would sweat so heavily that I literally soaked through the costume entirely. They could wring the costume out and it would drip with sweat. It got so sweaty that the next night, it would still be wet—quite disgusting. Now again, many things bring joy to our lives: the relationships we have and the people around us. So, I just want to hear from all of you. Who has people in your life that bring joy? Say 'aye.' Aye! How about sunshine or suffering? Enjoy!
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How about Taiwan? Monkeys? Dogs? Dancing? These bring us joy, right? How about ice cream, wine, beer, coffee, or tea? Computers? They bring us joy! Hello Ruby! Can I hear it for Ruby? Absolutely! And sushi! Who doesn’t love sushi? Or music? Or lollipops? Or cake? Who doesn't love smiley poo? Everybody loves smiley poo! How about movies? Yes! How about documentation? No! Nobody likes documentation. Because documentation is hell. Documentation is a liar, just like you see.
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Documentation sucks for a multitude of reasons. The first is it's rarely up to date. There's little or no incentive to write it, and there's never enough. For me, here's a graph that diagrams my love and hate of documentation: on the bottom is the time spent writing docs and on the right, it's how much I want to punch someone. What you’ll see is, the more time I spend writing docs, I start off happy but kind of get a little sad by the end. I’m pretty much ready to rage quit and punch you in the face! But interestingly enough, as it goes on, I actually find that the more time I spend on it, the more fulfilling it becomes. I end up becoming pretty neutral about it.
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See, here’s the thing: when we look at the code in front of us, the narrative there is the implementation—that’s the thing we spend a lot of our time doing. What we’re supposed to be doing, right? We come up with naming conventions and so forth about that. Then there’s this chunk up there, which generally is where the documentation goes, and this is the 'how.' How am I supposed to be doing this? The thing is, the 'what' takes a lot of time, and the 'how' takes a lot of time, but we’re generally okay with doing a lot of the 'what.' Yet the 'how' is a total pain in the ass, right? We absolutely hate doing the 'how.' That’s because documentation sucks; it’s a hard thing to do.
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Now, changing topics just a little bit, let’s talk about this—language is powerful. It's incredibly powerful. We know this intimately because, and I know this intimately because I'm from America. I came over here into your beautiful country; I'm speaking one language and you're speaking another for most of you, and we find a common bond in the middle. Language is incredibly powerful, and so is documentation. Documentation is really powerful, but it’s also quite painful. Now, in the middle, there’s this thing called poetry. What is that? Well, it’s an interesting hybrid of the two if you think about it. Poetry is the expression of feeling or emotion through language. In a way, it’s like poetry is documented language; it’s very declarative by nature.
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Well, I don’t know if you remember this, but a few years ago, there was a man by the name of David Heinemeier Hansson. Do not know who this is? It’s okay! Some wanted to burn their computer and throw things at him as a result. So why would that be so concerning? Why would so many people care about that? Let’s examine this systematically. I went online and looked up the definition of a writer. It said, 'A person who has written a particular text.' Yes, very clear. That is exactly what we do. But there’s nothing sexy about that. I mean, there’s nothing enjoyable about simply writing. There are much better words. And then looking at synonyms, we see words like 'author,' or 'wordsmith,' or 'penman'; now we’re getting somewhere—novelist! Oh, and I noticed this little word there: 'poet.' I thought, 'Heck yeah! I like poet!' I looked up the definition, and it says, 'Somebody with magical powers.' I was like, 'Yeah! I want magical powers! I'm now a software poet! This is amazing!' I finally determined what it is that I love.
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So, it wasn’t a matter of not being a software writer; it was the wrong word choice. Language is powerful! As I dove down this rabbit hole a little further, I wanted to look at some great poets. Let’s define this a little. I found this guy, Mr. William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare was one of the greatest poets of our time. In fact, if you do a little bit of research into him, you’ll notice that this book here is the complete works of Shakespeare. Now I didn't get a chance to bring that because I would have to check another bag, and it would go over the limited prize; it would probably cost me $75 to bring it to you today.
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When you look at it, you’ll notice that of Shakespeare's language, there are 800,000 words. Now, of those 800,000 words, I want you to guess how many new word forms he created. Out of the air! Never been used before. How many do you think? A thousand? 200? None? No—1700! Now, of 800,000 words, Shakespeare, the poet, created 1700 new word forms, things that had never been used to reference something else before. It’s not that he just created words out of thin air, but he used poetry; he expressed these ideas.
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Here’s what’s interesting: of all that, take a guess how much documentation exists? None! I was like, wait a second! So basically, what he did was create an application of 800,000 lines, and he didn’t document any of it. One of the greatest poets in history, especially English history, created complex fight sequences and had musical interludes and 1700 undefined words and wrote no documentation. Now, that’s not entirely true; there’s a little bit of documentation, but you’ll find that of what he wrote, it’s incredibly sparse, and more often than not, that documentation itself is poetry.
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He’s not saying 'Somebody uses their right arm,' or 'They go down to the left side of the stage.' It does not say that. So how did this happen? What can we learn from Shakespeare? What if Shakespeare wrote code? Let’s start with this. Can someone raise their hand? If you could come on up here— now I would like you to give a round of applause for the Taiwanese response players. Yes, these are our players today! They will be performing a scene from Romeo and Juliet. Luckily this guy had a translation of Chinese produced. You are going to play the role of Samson, you are going to play the role of Gregory, you are going to play the role of Abraham, and you will play the role of Tybalt.
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And I will somehow intermingle the role of Benvolio in English. So, players, here’s a couple of things: although all of you are gentlemen in front of us, I want to bring to your attention that at the time of Shakespeare, all roles were done by men—even the women! So today, there are no women in this scene we are reading. It's a version with different characters. But here's what's important for you to recognize: first and foremost, you must speak with great authority. You can look ridiculous, and it’s totally okay. So speak with great authority. You’re not going to be judged on this because we are a supportive audience! Yes, absolutely! So you can do no wrong. Trust me on this one.
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All right, and at the point where there is a moment where you are supposed to thrust or advance with somebody else, you can do that. Ready? Curtain, go!
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Gregory: You too, how the women? Where? Until job, boy! Woman! Shut up! What’s all arugula? On the gang? Walk about, Elgin. Thanks! Water—Oh God, jinko! Part of the team. Dare I say to you, arugula to Joe? Let’s go! John & company! Yo! Yo! Sit sensitivity, noho! Powder! Quiet now, Janet. Let’s go, you or TT! Son shallow. Channel! Phone book! 11 Central - an area near on the donor!
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Now mind you, I will now tell what you are going to do about that. Watch it! Yo la la! So good! Haha! Grandpa, you! Time to oblivion! How is it? Thumbs up! So, wait, oh yeah! How is my daughter's ESO? Haven’t gone! We got—we also have a yellow moons—It doesn’t have a job na Jeong!
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Let me explain that. Chanda, we have water boundary. Rugen and Ashley, I'm there to choke out who? You can announce it! That’s on you!
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Fact is, that you guys indulge me is great. So let's take a look at a little bit of what’s going on. Right? What can we learn from this? Well, other than the fact that we can have a lot of fun, not understanding most of it, but having a really good time. Let’s start with this. What if Shakespeare wrote Ruby? Well, first and foremost, we talked about this, which is expressive convention. In other words, patterns with meaning.
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The first one we'll talk about is called iambic pentameter. It’s also known as metered verse. Here’s what it sounds like: The traditional English language is phrased in a way that iambic pentameter works with it. The way iambic pentameter works is that it’s broken into five iambs or five iams—which is a beat-ABAB combination. So, thusly, it is: da-dum, da-dum, da-dum, da-dum. And there are five of those for a total of ten syllables, right? This is very much like the English language.
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So do with me! It would be like: da-dum da-dum da-dum da-dum. Now, when you take it and you put it against the text, it would look and emphasize something like this. When I do count the clock that tells the time. This is the metered verse; this is the pattern that's actually built into the language itself, right?
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