RailsConf 2010: Robert Martin

Robert Martin (Object Mentor, Inc.)

[@UplandBill]

"How many languages do you have to know to get a goddamn webpage up?!?!"

[@crabsynth3480]

UplandBill [edit : i just got to this part of the video ... haha ... i get it now.] you only need html ... the rest of the languages just create and manage that html... so its up to you... how far down the rabbit hole you wanna go.

[@BryonLape]

All of them

[@jeffdickey]

Dictionary-class definition of the Curmudgeonly Master. Love it!

[@BryonLape]

Programmers still use Goto, but they are hidden as method calls with side effects.

[@crabsynth3480]

Woooah .... uncle bob rockin on the drums !

[@sackwhack]

Very nice talk

[@gamemusicmeltingpot2192]

I didn't know he was good at drums lol

[@BrandNewByxor]

We've got intelliJ RubyMine now! Wishes were granted.

[@Vahagnll]

@timmehTheNap "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs", by Abelson & Sussman

[@BryonLape]

For how many years has Uncle Bob been giving the same presentation? The more than a decade rant may have proven his point.

[@jeffdickey]

More than one, you're doing it wrong. And we're all doing it wrong. Ruby and other languages make writing DSLs easy, so we can do it even MORE wrong as we go along, in languages that didn't exist until we invented them. Juxtaposing that and Martin's "twenty-five zeroes" (from this keynote) should give any software developer pause. (But we old-timers always knew that everything interesting in software was done between ~1955-1979 anyway; Martin just rubs everybody's noses in it, in passing.)

[@TheSilentMeadow]

What's funny about Pascal ? 26:34

[@VaSaKed]

VHDL is the answer

[@BryonLape]

Hardware got better. Software got worse.

[@nickbarton3191]

Yep, VI sucks

[@fakefarm]

"Where do Atoms come from? Stars" It's nice to know that all smart people say silly things sometimes.

[@crabsynth3480]

fake farm just curious... why would you say that ? Forgive the extreme generalization but all heavier atoms do come from stars with the exception of the alpha atom .. hydrogen (not alpha particle ... i mean alphabetically as in the first one)... hydrogen that was leftover from the matter anti-matter interaction was mentioned in the talk here... sure today black holes and the compton effect bring more matter and antimatter into existence ... pouring them into our universe here and there and who knows what we dont know but i thought it was pretty much accepted that all heavier atoms do indeed form inside stars from fusion... hence the sagan qoute "we are starstuff"... Whats your alternate explanation?