[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday, November 14, at MIT

2006-11-06 Thread Ronald J Kimball
Boston.pm will have a tech meeting on Tuesday, November 14, at MIT, in building E51, room 376 (directions below), starting at 7:15pm. I don't have a speaker lined up for this meeting. If you'd like to give a presentation, or you have a suggestion for a topic, let me know! For those of you who

Re: [Boston.pm] Python

2006-11-06 Thread Ben Tilly
On 11/5/06, Bill Ricker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a firm believer in expressing things in the most straightforward way possible. Most people find loops straightforward, so I'm happy to use loops unless I have a good reason not to. Most *people* find loops and all other programming

[Boston.pm] More Math vs Computer Science and a (very little) Python

2006-11-06 Thread Bill Ricker
Well if you get down to brass tacks, most people are functionally illiterate. True enough. And they're proud to say I was never any good at math ... And why do they think walking encyclopedia is an insult? At least in Canada, which is the only country that I know dares try measuring such