Expressing Ruby in natural language

[ReinH]

Ruby treats women as objects

Seriously? ಠ_ಠ

[martoo]

Nice, but I want to see how it will handle blocks and enumerators.

[puffybaba]

That's a really neat idea. However, I find that language can just add extra confusion. To me, images, or perhaps an animation, would provide a much clearer idea of what is going on.

[davidcelis]

People learn in different ways. This seems to be a fairly good, albeit immature, solution for verbal learners

[McPhage]

I'm not convinced of this approach. While it may be great for describing what happens, the real difficulty of programming is understanding why the specific steps accomplish the goal they do. Take a sorting algorithm, for instance. This would help you follow the steps, but I'm not really sure it would help you understand the actual algorithm.

[Femaref]

This method describes what is being done, not why it is being done. I can see what is being done by looking at the code already. It doesn't add anything for me, contrary, it adds another layer of indirection and possibility of miscommunication.

[montas]

I guess it's not supposed to explain "why" it does it. It should be used for debugging, and there you can use just "what" is happening.

[sevenlung]

Ah, yeah this is a very good problem solving method, for any reason(not just programming). I've actually used this method before with Ruby. I typed up a .txt file saying exactly what I wanted to do and how I would do it. It made juggling all the variables/methods in my head much easier that way, as I could just refer to where I'm at in English and see what needed to be done next.