[Chicago] language ideas for the shootout

[sheila miguez]

Does anyone know someone who uses scala in a production environment
who could talk about it?

There was a really thoughtful rant about it with respect to its use at yammer.


On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
> I want everyone on this list to forward the invite to at least one friend or
> group ;) We have a good space this time and let's fill it up.
>
> Here are some languages from the Ultimate Language shootout I (January
> 2009):
>
> C - Daniel
> tcl/tk - tentative
> Logo - Ian B
> Smalltalk -Ian B
> Groovy - David S
> JAVA - Garrett S
> Ruby - Frederick P
> JavaScript - Frederick P
> Boo - Feihong H
> C++ - Allan L
> Lua - Allan L
> Clojure - Cosmin S
> C# - Marc T
> ... many more
>
>
>
> Here are some from II (February 2010):
>
> C++ brian R
> Fortran William S
> Emacs Lisp Christopher W
> Erlang Garrett
> Haskell Tristan
> JavaScript fhsu
> Factor tyler G
> Ruby jim
> Common Lisp Frank D
> Perl Clyde F
> Forth Phil R
> Java brian B
> F-Script Jeff
> Limbo Jeff S
> Closure Jeff R
> ... there were more
>
>
>
> The Competition
> ---------------
> Each participant gets only 5-10 minutes (depending on entries). The
> person who makes the best case wins! They can do whatever they want--
> just as long as each presentation is about some programming language
> other than Python and make at least one comparison to Python during
> the talk.
>
> Sign up:
> https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFdET2FPcjdfa3FCLXlWZ2ZRUFJoN3c6MA
> See who is in the running:
> http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tWDOaOr7_kqB-yVgfQPRh7w&single=true&gid=0&output=html
>
> There will be a cash prize for the best presentation (not the best
> language, we already know that winner) given of $200. Plus you will be
> considered really cool for awhile and your friends will be highly
> impressed.
>
>
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sheila