[BangPypers] Minutes of Saturday BangPypers meeting (11/Oct)

2009-10-14 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
X-posting to inpycon since the meeting was mostly PyCon related. Hello everyone, This are the rough minutes of the meeting at ThoughtWorks on 11/Oct Apart from the technical tidbits, we mostly discussed the conference and related matters. Items discussed - Send a mail using the site

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-14 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: [..] The fact is that real good hackers don't care about the language they use, but in the quality of the code they write in that

Re: [BangPypers] Minutes of Saturday BangPypers meeting (11/Oct)

2009-10-14 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: X-posting to inpycon since the meeting was mostly PyCon related. Hello everyone,   This are the rough minutes of the meeting at ThoughtWorks on 11/Oct Forgot one more more point which is to schedule a regular BangPypers

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-14 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote:  I have observed that language fanaticism is not seen very much  in the Python world. Experienced Pythonistas seem to be better language cosmopolitans. This is not meant as a troll or flame, but something

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-14 Thread Zaki Manian
This is one the few examples of a high profile Perl Project that I am aware of. http://syncwith.us/ US number: +1 650-862-5992 Indian Number:+919945111824 On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Roshan Mathews rmath...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-14 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Zaki Manian z...@manian.org wrote: This is one the few examples of a high profile Perl Project that I am aware of. http://syncwith.us/ Large projects written in Perl include Slash, Bugzilla, RT, TWiki, and Movable Type. Many high-traffic websites use Perl

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-14 Thread Baiju M
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Roshan Mathews rmath...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Zaki Manian z...@manian.org wrote: This is one the few examples of a high profile Perl Project that I am aware of. http://syncwith.us/ Large projects written in Perl include Slash,

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-14 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 14 Oct 2009 1:03:28 pm Baiju M wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Roshan Mathews rmath...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Zaki Manian z...@manian.org wrote: This is one the few examples of a high profile Perl Project that I am aware of.

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-14 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Baiju M mba...@zeomega.com wrote: Koha (http://www.koha.org) is great web application written in Perl. Looks interesting. It's weird since someone just asked for library management software on the Chennai LUG list. Roshan Mathews

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-14 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: the last? great web application written in perl? It was written in 1999-2000 when perl ruled the roost. Seriously I was a perl guy from 1995 to 2003. It was great for one man projects, but not so great for collaborative

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-14 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 14 Oct 2009 1:49:24 pm Roshan Mathews wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: the last? great web application written in perl? It was written in 1999-2000 when perl ruled the roost. Seriously I was a perl guy from 1995 to 2003. It was

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-14 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 14 Oct 2009 1:49:24 pm Roshan Mathews wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: the last? great web application written in perl? It was written in 1999-2000 when perl ruled the roost. Seriously I was a perl guy from 1995 to 2003. It was

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-14 Thread Anand Chitipothu
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Roshan Mathews rmath...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Baiju M mba...@zeomega.com wrote: Koha (http://www.koha.org) is great web application written in Perl. Looks interesting.  It's weird since someone just asked for library management

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-14 Thread Baiju M
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Baiju M mba...@zeomega.com wrote: Koha (http://www.koha.org) is great web application written in Perl. Long back I was a Koha consultant (2003-2004): http://www.kohadocs.org/CDS_ISIS_to_Koha.html Now I don't understand the Perl code I wrote there :) -- Baiju M

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-14 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Baiju M mba...@zeomega.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Baiju M mba...@zeomega.com wrote: Koha (http://www.koha.org) is great web application written in Perl. Long back I was a Koha consultant (2003-2004):

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-14 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Baiju M mba...@zeomega.com wrote: Now I don't understand the Perl code I wrote there :)  Someone should quote your post everytime they discuss language  readability and

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-14 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Roshan Mathews rmath...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Baiju M mba...@zeomega.com wrote: Now I don't understand the Perl code I wrote there :)  Someone

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-14 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 14 Oct 2009 3:04:10 pm Roshan Mathews wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Baiju M mba...@zeomega.com wrote: Now I don't understand the Perl code I wrote there :) Someone should quote

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-14 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: On Wednesday 14 Oct 2009 3:04:10 pm Roshan Mathews wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Baiju M mba...@zeomega.com wrote: Now

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-14 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 14 Oct 2009 3:52:05 pm Roshan Mathews wrote: Someone should quote your post everytime they discuss language readability and Perl... Generalizations are always harmful. including this one Yes, I was surprised no one caught that. :) The point still stands though. it

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-14 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: On Wednesday 14 Oct 2009 3:52:05 pm Roshan Mathews wrote: The point still stands though. it doesn't - and you haven't even spelt it properly It might be a good idea to back away from the keyboard when you find that

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-14 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 14 Oct 2009 4:12:00 pm Roshan Mathews wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: On Wednesday 14 Oct 2009 3:52:05 pm Roshan Mathews wrote: The point still stands though. it doesn't - and you haven't even spelt it properly It might be

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-14 Thread Anand Chitipothu
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: On Wednesday 14 Oct 2009 4:12:00 pm Roshan Mathews wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: On Wednesday 14 Oct 2009 3:52:05 pm Roshan Mathews wrote: The point still stands