[Chicago] Chicago Python User Group: Thurs. July 13, 2006 7pm.
Ian Bicking
ianb at colorstudy.com
Wed Jul 12 17:41:25 CEST 2006
Chris McAvoy wrote:
> On 7/12/06, Atul Varma <varmaa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On 7/12/06, Chris McAvoy <chris.mcavoy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>* Perl 6 compared to Python
>>>
>>>I'm not comparing anything to anything. I'm showing something to some people.
>>>
>>>Dangit.
>>
>>More reason to have a Dynamic Languages Users Group, eh? Or maybe a
>>Pragmatic Programmers Users Group...
>
>
> I really like this idea. A handful of us have talked about it off and
> on. I'm a committed polyglot. I think specific language groups are
> good thing for advocacy and focused learning, but I'm getting tired of
> 2 or more meetings per month.
I dunno... when there's something novel and interesting in another
language, or something novel and interesting implemented in any
language, that's interesting. But there's also a lot of plumbing that's
interesting only in the right domain; learning about, say, PHP XML
processing would bore me to death.
DemoCamp seems like an interesting idea (http://barcamp.org/DemoCamp).
Or for something more programmery (and less startupy), a lightning talk
format. 5-10 minutes of PHP XML processing would only bore me slightly,
and I can tolerate that.
Ian
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