[Chicago] language ideas for the shootout

JP Bader jp at zavteq.com
Mon May 7 17:16:25 CEST 2012


I had offered to talk about it, but I don't use it in a production
envrionment (not yet at least).

JP
On May 7, 2012 10:12 AM, "sheila miguez" <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:

> 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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> > @brianray
> > (773) 669-7717
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>
>
>
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> sheila
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