On Tue, May 17, 2005 11:42 am, Christopher Sawtell said: > 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. ( it's ok, everyone spells it wrong ): ) > 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 > Ban the C shell! I'd say the Bourne, Korn and Bash are similar enough to be treated as such... Shame csh is the defult on FreeBSD ): ( http://www.kitebird.com/csh-tcsh-book/csh-whynot )
ash may be an useful addition, although it's uses are pretty specific. Would it be possible to take up on Nick's idea and provide a specific solution to a common problem... build up a compare/contrast library on the wiki from it? Cheers, Steve -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what?
