The NASIG Board approved and adopted “Core Competencies of
Electronic Resources Librarianship” as NASIG policy at
their June 2013 meeting in Buffalo, New York.
Sarah Sutton, former chair of the Core Competencies Task
Force (CCTF), notes that she and the CCTF have high hopes
that both library and
hello,
Sorry comming late with it but:
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:43:33AM -0500, Joshua Welker wrote:
Not intending to start a language flame war/holy war here, but in the
library coding community, is there a particular reason to use Ruby over
Python or vice-versa?
Is it the only choices
Whoohoo, late to the party!
I like Python because I learned it first, and I haven't had a need to
explore Ruby yet.
I did briefly foray into learning Ruby in order to try to learn Rails, and
I actually found that my background in Python sort of gave me brain-jam for
learning Ruby, because the
No mention of PHP?
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On Jul 30, 2013, at 9:14 AM, Kurt Nordstrom doseofvitam...@gmail.com wrote:
Whoohoo, late to the party!
I like Python because I learned it first, and I haven't had a need to
explore Ruby yet.
I did briefly foray into learning Ruby in order to try
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I am already a big user of PHP for web apps, but PHP does not make a
fantastic scripting language in my experience.
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University of Central Missouri
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The proliferation of boutique languages is a cancer on our community. Each
one is a YAP (Yet Another Priesthood), and little else. The world does not
need five slightly varying syntaxes for a substring function. If I had switched
languages every time the web community recommended it, I would
i don't know why we're not talking about Haskell
Functional programming FTW!
On 7/30/13 10:27 AM, Mark A. Matienzo mark.matie...@gmail.com wrote:
i don't know why we're not talking about Haskell
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The
and so the PointBash language was created. Thanks, you've doomed us
all.
C:\Dev-Code\zerodiv.pb [Warning] Expected period at end of `int i = x/0`
add period and recompile.'
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Rich Wenger rwen...@mit.edu wrote:
The proliferation of boutique languages is a
-:) -Rich
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Scott
Turnbull
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 10:41 AM
To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby
and so the PointBash language was created. Thanks, you've
+1
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Metadata and Systems Librarian
Colorado College
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark A.
Matienzo
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 8:27 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby
i don't
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:27:01AM -0400, Mark A. Matienzo wrote:
i don't know why we're not talking about Haskell
I did to tell there is a lack of libraries and it is not as convenient
as perl when it comes to use regexps.
I wrote a MARC::MIR reader for ISO2709 but have some issues (it seems
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On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 02:21:55PM +, Rich Wenger wrote:
The proliferation of boutique languages is a cancer on our community.
sure ... but i don't want to be stuck on PHP or python when i have the
power of perl inside my hands, other would argue perl is too hard for
librarians and go
What would you consider a boutique language? What isn't?
-Ross.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Rich Wenger rwen...@mit.edu wrote:
The proliferation of boutique languages is a cancer on our community.
Each one is a YAP (Yet Another Priesthood), and little else. The world
does not need
All languages other than assembly are boutique and must be eliminated like
the cancer that they are.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote:
What would you consider a boutique language? What isn't?
-Ross.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Rich Wenger
Whatever; if you're not programming Turing machines made from two rocks and
a roll of toilet paper, then you're not a REAL coder.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote:
All languages other than assembly are boutique and must be eliminated like
the cancer that
Ok folks, we have veered into nonconstructive territory. How about we
come back to the original question and help this person figure out
what they need to about Ruby and Python so they can do well with what
they want to work on.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:21:24AM -0400, Andreas Orphanides wrote:
Whatever; if you're not programming Turing machines made from two rocks and
a roll of toilet paper, then you're not a REAL coder.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8DiOthAKek
./fxk
--
H. L. Mencken suffers from the
Real coders roll their own programming languages.
-Original Message-
From: Francis Kayiwa kay...@uic.edu
Sent: Jul 30, 2013 10:45 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:21:24AM -0400, Andreas Orphanides wrote:
Whatever; if
umad bro? ;)
Josh Welker
Information Technology Librarian
James C. Kirkpatrick Library
University of Central Missouri
Warrensburg, MO 64093
JCKL 2260
660.543.8022
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Rich
Wenger
Sent: Tuesday, July
I think I have the information I need at this point, so this would be a good
time to let this thread die before it turns into what I tried to avoid in
the first place.
Josh Welker
Information Technology Librarian
James C. Kirkpatrick Library
University of Central Missouri
Warrensburg, MO 64093
Once you have committed your soul to visual Basic, there is no turning back.
On Jul 30, 2013, at 9:07 AM, Joshua Welker wel...@ucmo.edu wrote:
umad bro? ;)
Josh Welker
Information Technology Librarian
James C. Kirkpatrick Library
University of Central Missouri
Warrensburg, MO 64093
JCKL
I recommend going through
http://pragprog.com/book/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-weeks
No, of course it's not exhaustive, but it offers an appreciation of some modern
languages, their differences, and the roots they derived from.
Every coder [their] language. Every language its coder :)
Didn't Dr. Frankenstein say that about the monster?
On Jul 30, 2013, at 9:09 AM, Joshua Welker wel...@ucmo.edu wrote:
I think I have the information I need at this point, so this would be a good
time to let this thread die before it turns into what I tried to avoid in
the first place.
Josh
I'm not sure about boutique, but I bet I can define brotique for you. ;)
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote:
What would you consider a boutique language? What isn't?
-Ross.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Rich Wenger rwen...@mit.edu wrote:
The
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:25:14AM -0500, Matthew Sherman wrote:
Ok folks, we have veered into nonconstructive territory. How about we
come back to the original question and help this person figure out
what they need to about Ruby and Python so they can do well with what
they want to work on.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Matthew Sherman
matt.r.sher...@gmail.comwrote:
Ok folks, we have veered into nonconstructive territory. How about we
come back to the original question and help this person figure out
what they need to about Ruby and Python so they can do well with what
they
Attention Pythonistas! The Call for Proposals for PyCon speakers is out:
http://us.pycon.org/2014/speaking/cfp/
PyCon will be April 9-17 in Montreal. (It's long because it includes
tutorials and development sprints as well as conference talks; people don't
necessarily attend all of it.)
The
Well, this is probably some obvious bait, but I will take it. :)
*writing python code is very boring when you come from featured. langages
like ruby or perl. nothing can be expressed a simple way*
I'd call this an intentional feature, as opposed to a detriment. The idea
behind Python is you
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks ++
Great geek fun.
On Jul 30, 2013, at 9:13 AM, Jason Stirnaman jstirna...@kumc.edu wrote:
I recommend going through
http://pragprog.com/book/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-weeks
No, of course it's not exhaustive, but it offers an appreciation of some
This discussion brought to mind this oldie but goodie...
http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html
Thus spake the master programmer:
``When you have learned to snatch the error code from the trap frame, it will
be time for you to leave.''
1.1
Something mysterious is formed,
s/objective/subjective/
FTFY
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Marc Chantreux m...@unistra.fr wrote:
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:25:14AM -0500, Matthew Sherman wrote:
Ok folks, we have veered into nonconstructive territory. How about we
come back to the original question and help this
As of Ruby 1.9, I would dispute the Ruby is slower than everything case.
There's lots of evidence to the contrary, e.g.
http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2012/06/ruby-is-faster-than-python-php-and-perl.html
Jason
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Python, Python, Python. Did I say Python?
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On Jul 30, 2013, at 11:09 AM, Joshua Welker wel...@ucmo.edu wrote:
I think I have the information I need at this
Has anyone tried coding using one of these?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3keLeMwfHY
It's extremely eerie how this thread has played out almost exactly like a
similar one in 2010: http://bit.ly/4kb77v
Creatures of habit, we are.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Levy, Michael ml...@ushmm.org wrote:
Has anyone tried coding using one of these?
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The BC group is organizing one in Vancouver for November, which you
could consider part of the NW region.
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.com wrote:
The c4l meetings in Portland all seemed to work pretty well. I'd be happy
to help put another one together.
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