On Sun, 15 May 2005 18:13, Nick Rout wrote:
> I couldn't work out which message in the "pike and python" thread was
> the most appropriate to respond to so I started a new thread.
Thank you, and many thanks to the volunteers who so generously offered their
time.
Is it sensible to devote a whole evening to each language?
or 2 per evening?
or indeed all of them in one session?
My own feeling is that one evening per language would give the speaker enough
time to expound on the subject to a reasonable depth, yet leave enough time
for questions and discussions after the supper break.
A possible schedule, in no particular order:-
July: Bourne Shell, etc. ( bash, csh, ksh, zsh )
August: Zane Gilmore: Perl.
September: Steve Holdaway: PHP.
October: Carl Cerecke: Python.
November: John Carter: Ruby.
December: Smalltalk.
The order is very open to alteration. I have just ordered them in a rough
chronological order of their origination.
I suspect that it might be best for the speakers to assume that their
audiences are able programmers in some language or other, so they should
target their talks to an Intermediate to Advanced level, because Richard
Tindall's group caters for the beginners.
We need a speaker for the July talk on Shells, and we could finish the year
with another talk in the series. Does anybody know of a Smalltalker who would
like to explain what it's all about for December?
Discuss.
--
C. S
