Darwinism in AgilityA LOOK AT THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE

Devlin Liles

• Vice President of Consulting, Improving Houston

• 5 year Microsoft MVP ( ALM, C#, Data Platform Development)

• Vocabulary enthusiast

• Agile developer

• Husband

• Father

The Premise

I AM TURNED INTO A SORT OF MACHINE FOR OBSERVING FACTS AND GRINDING OUT CONCLUSIONS - CHARLES DARWIN

How to view evolution…

• Definition - any process of formation or growth; development.

• In Software– The process wars– Object oriented vs procedural vs abject oriented

• In our language– ….?

The stone age

T H E G R E E K W O R D F O R " R E T U R N " I S N O S T O S . A L G O S M E A N S " S U F F E R I N G . "

S O N O S TA L G I A I S T H E S U F F E R I N G C A U S E D BY A N U N A P P E A S E D Y E A R N I N G T O R E T U R N .

Claude ShannonMathematical Theory of Communication – Father of the bit!

Grace Hopper“Amazing Grace”

The bronze age

“WE BECOME WHAT WE BEHOLD. WE SHAPE OUR TOOLS, AND THEREAFTER OUR TOOLS SHAPE US.”   - MARSHALL MCLUHAN

LISPThe first language to target building AI

Ken IversonA Programming Language - 1964

The Renaissance

RENAISSANCE – REVIVAL OR RENEWED INTEREST IN SOMETHING

Triune Tale of Diminutive Swine – John Branyan

HAVE YOU HEARD THIS TALE?

It is all about soft skills

The modern age…..

WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH THE PRICE OF TEA IN CHINA? - ME

The battle fields

• Waterfall vs Agile

• Testing vs Coding

• Operations vs Development

• …. Etc…. ad nauseam

The quality of our thoughtscan never exceed

The quality of our language

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