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language aesthetics Sam Aaron "The aesthetic is at once, as I try to show, the very secret prototype of human subjectivity in early capitalist society, and a vision of human energies as radical ends in themselves which is the implacable

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language aesthetics

Sam Aaron

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"The aesthetic is at once, as I try to show, the very secret prototype of human subjectivity in early capitalist society, and a vision of human energies as radical ends in themselves which is the implacable enemy of all dominative or instrumentalist thought". Terry Eagleton

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“Good software = beautiful software” Marcel Molina Jnr

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Thomas Aquinas: definition of beauty

proportion integrity clarity (succinctness) (readability) (expressiveness)

ruby

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λ

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λ

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“This is some serious mojo” Harm Aarts

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$ruby.is_a?(Object){|oriented| language}

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def you are false end enjoy life while you /can/

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"eyes".scan /the_darkness/ catch( :in_the_wind ) { ?a.round; "breath" \

  • r "a".slice /of_moon/ }
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perspective

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Ruby Sadists

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audiences

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audiences

programmers pair-programmers

users tests

maintainers

stake-holders

domain experts

introspection tools project leaders

  • utsourced

programmers designers

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"Programmers spend so much of their time in their own heads that trying to look at the world from someone else's viewpoint is a big shift" Kent Beck

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“The main idea is to treat a program as a piece of literature, addressed to human beings rather than to a computer”. Donald Knuth

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“Treating Code as an Essay” Yukihiro Matsumoto, 松本行弘, Matz

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Number of Messages Number of Users

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Everything

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Boring Interesting

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select * from artefacts where (colour = 'red')

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select * from artefacts where (virtual = false and ((colour = 'red') and (category = 'player' and ((virtual = false and (category = 'player' and (name in (select name from artefacts where (((5.0 + radius > sqrt(pow((x_coord - 27.0), 2) + pow((y_coord - 13.0), 2))) and (category = 'aura'))))))) and ((9.5 > sqrt(pow((x_coord - 25.0), 2) + pow((y_coord - 10.0), 2))))))))

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Complexity of SQL Complexity of Interest

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Abstraction Scoping Interest Conditions Relative Interest Conditions Expressions Auto- quoting Implicit and and or Operators SQL Conditional Operators Use of Abstraction for Scoping Grouping Implicit Grouping Explicit Grouping Relative Artefacts

Expressiveness Succinctness Readability Wish Ruby SQL

Explicit not and in Operators

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SLIDE 45 Scoping Interest Conditions Relative Interest Conditions Grouping Conditional Operators YAML with embedded SQL Expressions Relative Artefacts Ruby Abstraction Use of Abstraction for Scoping Implicit Grouping Explicit Grouping Auto-quoting Wish Explicit not and in Operators
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Domain Specific Languages

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class CatalogueSubgroup < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :catalogue_groupings has_many :items, :through => :catalogue_groupings belongs_to :catalogue_group end

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class GroupingMerger < Merger for_model Grouping listen_to 'ItemPDBSubgroup' primary_key :item_number, :group_code, :subgroup_code map 'ItemNo' => :item_number map 'PDBGroupCode' => :group_code map 'PDBSubgroupCode' => :subgroup_code map 'Position' => :position, :type => :integer map 'Description' => :description end

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it "should put expression tags around a word containing multiple .s " do wish = "attribute = 10.next.next" post_parse = "(attribute = 12)" @interest.parse_interests(wish, "").should == post_parse end

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class LegacyAssociations < AssociationLinker link "user belongs to a contact" do from User => :contact_number to Contact => :number end link "favourite belongs to an item" do from Favourite => :item_number to Item => :number end link "item_metadata belongs to an item" do from ItemMetadata => :item_number to Item => :number end end

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"Not just 'what will the computer do with this code?' but 'How can I communicate what I am thinking to people?'" Kent Beck