# Programmers can be humans and nice

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/programmers-can-be-humans-and-nice/119717>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 9, 2007, 2:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/programmers-can-be-humans-and-nice/119717 "2007-11-09T14:56:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![pietro\_ferrari](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@pietro\_ferrari](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pietro_ferrari)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 2:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/programmers-can-be-humans-and-nice/119717/1 "2007-11-09T14:56:59Z")

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Hello fellow rubyists,

I’m sending rough translation of a message posted on the brasilian  
ruby forum [rubyonbr.org](http://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."

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**Author:** ![pietro\_ferrari](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@pietro\_ferrari](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pietro_ferrari)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/programmers-can-be-humans-and-nice/119717/2 "2007-11-09T17:27:37Z")

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

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**Author:** ![pietro\_ferrari](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@pietro\_ferrari](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pietro_ferrari)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 7:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/programmers-can-be-humans-and-nice/119717/3 "2007-11-09T19:05:57Z")

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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?