What Thorsten Ball thinks about Ruby
Co-founder of Amp and co-host of the Raising an Agent podcast. Wrote Writing an Interpreter in Go.
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3 dated positions, 2019, in their own words. Our reading of what Thorsten Ball has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingProgramming languages shape how programmers think, similar to how spoken languages shape thought.
Their wordsLanguages shape the way we think*, each in their own peculiar way. That's true for programming languages as well.
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Their wordsEach language contains a different mental model, a different perspective for thinking about computation and how to write programs.
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Our readingA programming language functions as a lens that shapes how a problem is perceived when solving it.
Their wordsEvery programming language is a lens through which we can look at the problem we're trying to solve.
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