[Chicago] Language comparisons

[Dan Krol]

Along those lines, what I think would be useful in convincing people
to try a new language is to show an example of something that really
sucks to implement in python, and show how elegant it is in erlang or
this tickle language. And/Or then the other way around. Otherwise,
it's just another way of doing the same thing.

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Daniel Griffin <dgriff1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> It would be interesting to come up with some common set of tasks to use for
> comparison. Maybe implementing a few fundamental algorithms like quick sort,
> heap sort, creating a binary tree. I can write these up in C to show a
> baseline.
>
> Instead of saying Python has lists! Erlang is functional! tcl/tk does
> something!
>
> Dan
>
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:41 AM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> Do we have volunteers for other languages? We could approach Martin
>> Logan to see if he'd be willing to discuss Erlang (we don't have a
>> strong stackless showing though).
>>
>> We should prepare a list of things to compare. and perhaps we will
>> need a pyconic sessionista to help keep the meeting from going too
>> long.
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:13 AM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:
>> > I vote for the topic, and I may be able to have a good presenter on
>> > tcl/tk assuming Thursdays work for him. He would be awesome and I
>> > think tcl is better than python in some regards so I'd like for him to
>> > provide comparisons to show strengths and weaknesses.
>> >
>> > --
>> > sheila
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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>> sheila
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