[Chicago] More Contestants ...

[Carl Karsten]

just blab about "why Java is so great" for 5 minutes.

Bonus points for comparing to Python, extra points for what Python
could learn, like maybe explain what a war file is and why anyone
should care.


On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 1:43 PM, eviljoel <eviljoel at linux.com> wrote:
> Hello Brian,
>
> So, I'm a little confused about the format for this.  If I wanted to
> show off Java, do I just blab about "why Java is so great" for 5
> minutes?  Is that how this works?  I was kind of thinking this was a
> programming competition or something.
>
> Thanks,
> EJ
>
>
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 1:05 PM, JP Bader <jp at zavteq.com> wrote:
>> Did you just volunteer for a 10 second talk about R?
>>
>> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:00 PM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:
>>> If anyone here uses R, I'd enjoy seeing a contrast and compare.
>>> Everyone I approached at work who uses it has other plans tonight, and
>>> the general call the ML group resulted in no takers. I looked through
>>> an R book and felt I'd rather use python for that stuff, but that's
>>> about 10 seconds.
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> great crowd... now we need  a couple more contestants.
>>>>
>>>> I am a little surprised there is no Ruby, Perl, C#, Java... yet.
>>>>
>>>> Sign up
>>>>
>>>> See who is in the running
>>>>
>>>> It is totally acceptable if you just *talk*. In fact, I think those are the
>>>> most fun sometimes.  Nonetheless, folks to make this even better than it
>>>> will be already, someone please sign up to be a contestent.
>>>
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>>
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Carl K