On 09/07/05, Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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).
I agree. I could easily fill 20 mins talking about python without showing much code at all. Generally, presenting more than a few lines of code in a talk is pretty boring for all involved. > > 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? Fine with me. Cheers, Carl
