[Baypiggies] November talk?

[Alex Martelli]

Getting a bit too close to the Nov meeting for such a "breadth-first talk"
to be prepared, though.  Jim asked me a week ago to present essentially the
same talk I'd given at ACCU on Nov 8, and I said I was fine as long as I
could subset it (basically down to "callbacks, variations thereon and some
of their ecosystem") because the amount of material I had attempted to cover
at ACCU had proven far too much for 2 hours (and Baypiggies' talks are
shorter than that).  And even the full ACCU talk didn't touch on all the
issues you want (e.g., no Erlang -- and only a part of async I/O, no mention
of the gyrations you need on Windows to do _general_ async I/O there).

I'm quite happy to let Aahz talk instead (I can talk in Dec, Jan, or
whenever) if that's preferred, though I think my talk might be more
elementary (but also more generic/abstract/less task-oriented) than Aahz's.
Who decides? Shall we toss a coin?-)


Alex

On 10/25/07, Shannon -jj Behrens <jjinux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/25/07, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
> > I'm still willing to do a November talk about threads, but the window is
> > closing before other commitments will swamp it -- someone please make a
> > decision by mid-day Sunday if possible.  (December is still possible;
> > Jan/Feb are still unavailable.)
>
> As much as I'd like to finally meet Aahz in person, I'd still really
> like to see a breadth-first talk providing an overview of a bunch of
> different topics such as:
>
> * Threads.
> * Processes.
> * Asynchronous IO.
> * Stackless.
> * Coroutines.
> * Erlang's approach.
>
> Threads are cool, but they're a gigantic pain ;)
>
> -jj
>
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