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kaycekovacek60 He once won a staring contest with his own reflection
herbvon13 Imagine you are writing an email. You are in front of the computer. You are operating the computer, clicking a mouse and typing on a keyboard, but the message will be sent to a human over the internet. So you are working before the computer, but with a human behind the computer.
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kaycekovacek60 Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines.
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karldouglas36 Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It can do everything.' But it's just plain impossible to design a perfect language, because there are two ways to look at a language. One way is by looking at what can be done with that language. The other is by looking at how we feel using that language-how we feel while programming.
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clementstokes7 Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.
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kaycekovacek60 Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.
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dongklein22 I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.
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dawnetreutel87 I believe that the purpose of life is, at least in part, to be happy. Based on this belief, Ruby is designed to make programming not only easy but also fun. It allows you to concentrate on the creative side of programming, with less stress.
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leocronin59 From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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