> 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.
Hear hear! If someone wishes to talk, then it is up to them to say how long they are prepared to talk for. Incidentally, Carl, you did a talk about the Unix command line which totally motivated me. Although it was a trivial example it really opened my eyes to what it was all about. You did a quick demo using things like sort, uniq, cut and other simple tools, all piped together. That was when I actually "got it". I hope that others are inspired by these talks to either a) apply the language under discussion to a problem they are working on, or b) get a book or do some other research because the language interests them. Andy
