> I was supposed to organise a programming problem for next week's > meeting, (Tuesday 12 July, St Albans) and four or five people were to > offer a solution in their favourite scripting language: > > Volker Kuhlmann: Bourne Shell, etc. ( bash, csh, ksh, zsh, etc. )
Less focus on bash<->tcsh and more an overview of scripting, but yes. > prepare. Part of my problem is getting to grips with a problem that is > not completely trivial, but can be presented in a short 20 minute > segment, and which possibly shows off the best and worst in each > language. Personally I don't think it's too good an approach, because finding a problem which doesn't unduely advantage or disadvantage one of the languages would be very difficult to impossible. Different languages, different purposes. You're trying to invent one purpose and let all lose on it. I would find it better if every presenter could (honestly!) list the main pros and cons. Remember, this is teaching about what's available, not a young boys' contest (politely put). > 1. whether people are interested in mythtv? (with a bit of multimedia > know-how thrown in if desired) > 2. whether people, particularly the presenters, would be ok with the > scripting session being moved to August? ack ack Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
