On Tue, 17 May 2005 13:31, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
July: Bourne Shell, etc. ( bash, csh, ksh, zsh )
I volunteer for this. Drop csh, it's been superseeded by tcsh a decade ago. I would only mention tcsh in passing anyway, though the interaction with bash is interesting. I started programming in tcsh because it was/is(?) the default on Solaris, but switched to bash eventually. The relative portability between tcsh and bash is interesting too, but wouldn't fit into 15 minutes.
OK then, I have heard the message, so lets compact this scripting jamboree into one, or possibly two, evenings.
7:30 Volker Kuhlmann: Bourne Shell, etc. ( bash, csh, ksh, zsh, etc. ) 8:00 John Carter: Ruby. 8:30 Carl Cerecke: Python.
9:00 SUPPER
9:30 Steve Holdoway: PHP. 10:00 Zane Gilmore: Perl.
10:30 Everybody: FlameFest :-)
11:00 Vacate the premises.
Personally I recon it's not possible to do justice to the subjects in the times allowed, and would like to suggest that we spread this over 2 evenings.
I.E. put two of them ( e.g. perl and PHP ) off until August, but in an open & democratic organisation who am I to say?
I don't want it to go too late. (i.e. past 10pm). I still think 15minutes +5 min questions is plenty of time to give a good overview of a language. And that's about all I have time to prepare for anyway. Short, sharp, and to the point.
Organisations such as ours can suffer from indecision caused by leaderlessness.
Cheers, Carl.
