Re: [LUAU] Re: Python (Was Re: Hosef)

2005-12-03 Thread Clifton Royston
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 10:30:02PM -1000, Tim Newsham wrote: ... My input: A saturday afternoon such as Dec. 3rd, around 1pm or so for a few hours (2, maybe 3?) with an aim to teach and learn new stuff by exchanging code and reworking it for demonstration purposes and discussing it? Geeky

Re: [LUAU] Re: Python (Was Re: Hosef)

2005-12-02 Thread Julian Yap
--- Tim Newsham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We will be at McKinley the next three Saturdays from 10-2. On the 10th we'll be there a bit longer for our organizational meeting. This is a month when we will be paying for the space, so we'd love for attendees to become members of HOSEF.

Re: [LUAU] Re: Python (Was Re: Hosef)

2005-12-02 Thread Tim Newsham
So is this going to be a Python, etc.. meet up? Yes, If people show up. If not hopefully Scott can keep me busy with something. Tim Newsham http://www.lava.net/~newsham/

Re: [LUAU] Re: Python (Was Re: Hosef)

2005-12-02 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Friday 02 December 2005 10:39, Tim Newsham wrote: So is this going to be a Python, etc.. meet up? Yes, If people show up. If not hopefully Scott can keep me busy with something. There is a little tiny something. I generally get an F in PR, and this month is no exception. The next

Re: [LUAU] Re: Python (Was Re: Hosef)

2005-12-01 Thread Michael Bishop
On Nov 30, 2005, at 11:21 PM, Michael Bishop wrote: On Nov 30, 2005, at 10:30 PM, Tim Newsham wrote: We will be at McKinley the next three Saturdays from 10-2. On the 10th we'll be there a bit longer for our organizational meeting. This is a month when we will be paying for the space,

Re: [LUAU] Re: Python (Was Re: Hosef)

2005-11-30 Thread Tim Newsham
We will be at McKinley the next three Saturdays from 10-2. On the 10th we'll be there a bit longer for our organizational meeting. This is a month when we will be paying for the space, so we'd love for attendees to become members of HOSEF. My input: A saturday afternoon such as Dec. 3rd,

Re: [LUAU] Re: Python (Was Re: Hosef)

2005-11-30 Thread Michael Bishop
On Nov 30, 2005, at 10:30 PM, Tim Newsham wrote: We will be at McKinley the next three Saturdays from 10-2. On the 10th we'll be there a bit longer for our organizational meeting. This is a month when we will be paying for the space, so we'd love for attendees to become members of HOSEF.

Re: [LUAU] Re: Python (Was Re: Hosef)

2005-11-29 Thread R. Scott Belford
Tim Newsham wrote: Would anyone be interested in starting up a very informal Hawaii Python Users' Group? Probably more of an occasional meet-up and chat, but we could see what evolves from it. Ok, so lots of people are interested. What's the next step? It would be good to come together

Re: [LUAU] Re: Python (Was Re: Hosef)

2005-11-28 Thread Clifton Royston
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 11:28:43AM -1000, Jimen Ching wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Tim Newsham wrote: I always found continue to be a lot more explicit in situations like this: while(*s++ = *t++) continue; the empty semi-colon being the least attractive alternative (did

Re: [LUAU] Re: Python (Was Re: Hosef)

2005-11-28 Thread Jimen Ching
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Clifton Royston wrote: Knowing the basic syntax of each language does not initially give you this. True. Learning the syntax of a language doesn't help with the semantics of a language. My goal for a language-oriented group would be to see it help new programmers

Re: [LUAU] Re: Python (Was Re: Hosef)

2005-11-28 Thread Jim Thompson
Clifton Royston wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 11:28:43AM -1000, Jimen Ching wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Tim Newsham wrote: I always found continue to be a lot more explicit in situations like this: while(*s++ = *t++) continue; the empty semi-colon being the least

Re: [LUAU] Re: Python (Was Re: Hosef)

2005-11-25 Thread Jimen Ching
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Tim Newsham wrote: I always found continue to be a lot more explicit in situations like this: while(*s++ = *t++) continue; the empty semi-colon being the least attractive alternative (did he really mean to leave the body empty? not to mention the greener

Re: [LUAU] Re: Python (Was Re: Hosef)

2005-11-23 Thread Jim Thompson
Clifton Royston wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 02:00:18PM -1000, Tim Newsham wrote: Something like this is what I was thinking, yeah. I am packing tonight to head for LA tomorrow, for Thanksgiving with my wife's family, hence I will give it essentially no thought until I get back. I'm

Re: [LUAU] Re: Python (Was Re: Hosef)

2005-11-23 Thread Tim Newsham
for ( ; *s++ = *t++ ; ) ; while (*s++ = *t++) { /* empty body */ } ;. I always found continue to be a lot more explicit in situations like this: while(*s++ = *t++) continue; the empty

Re: [LUAU] Re: Python (Was Re: Hosef)

2005-11-22 Thread Tim Newsham
Would anyone be interested in starting up a very informal Hawaii Python Users' Group? Probably more of an occasional meet-up and chat, but we could see what evolves from it. Ok, so lots of people are interested. What's the next step? It would be good to come together sometime and I guess

Re: [LUAU] Re: Python (Was Re: Hosef)

2005-11-22 Thread Clifton Royston
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 02:00:18PM -1000, Tim Newsham wrote: Would anyone be interested in starting up a very informal Hawaii Python Users' Group? Probably more of an occasional meet-up and chat, but we could see what evolves from it. Ok, so lots of people are interested. What's the next

Re: [LUAU] Re: Python (Was Re: Hosef)

2005-11-20 Thread Clifton Royston
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 09:30:27AM -1000, Tim Newsham wrote: Would anyone be interested in starting up a very informal Hawaii Python Users' Group? Probably more of an occasional meet-up and chat, but we could see what evolves from it. I'd be interested in participating. Good, I would

[LUAU] Re: Python (Was Re: Hosef)

2005-11-20 Thread Julian Yap
I'm interested... But I'd prefer if it also included Ruby. I've been using Python (also Zope and Plone) for a year but I'm starting to read up on Ruby and Ruby on Rails. I've got to get me a laptop. Come on deals :P Julian --- Tim Newsham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would anyone be

Re: [LUAU] Re: Python (Was Re: Hosef)

2005-11-20 Thread Michael Bishop
On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 09:53 -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: Would anyone be interested in starting up a very informal Hawaii Python Users' Group? Probably more of an occasional meet-up and chat, but we could see what evolves from it. I would be interested.

Re: [LUAU] Re: Python (Was Re: Hosef)

2005-11-20 Thread Vince Hoang
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 09:53:18AM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: (I sent this to the list before, but from the wrong address...) Sorry, non-subscriber messages get held until a cron process purges them each night. I had originally hacked mailman to reject non-subscriber posts, but removed it

Re: [LUAU] Re: Python (Was Re: Hosef)

2005-11-20 Thread Jim Thompson
I'm in, but if we're doing Python and Ruby, I'm gonna have to be the Lisp crank. Jim Julian Yap wrote: I'm interested... But I'd prefer if it also included Ruby. I've been using Python (also Zope and Plone) for a year but I'm starting to read up on Ruby and Ruby on Rails. I've got to get

Re: [LUAU] Re: Python (Was Re: Hosef)

2005-11-20 Thread Clifton Royston
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 11:49:42AM -0800, Julian Yap wrote: I'm interested... But I'd prefer if it also included Ruby. I've been using Python (also Zope and Plone) for a year but I'm starting to read up on Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Actually, that would be cool with me too. The RoR hype has

[LUAU] Re: Python (Was Re: Hosef)

2005-11-19 Thread Clifton Royston
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 03:45:20PM -1000, Jim Thompson wrote: Julian Yap wrote: From http://www.python.org/Quotes.html: Python has been an important part of Google since the beginning, and remains so as the system grows and evolves. Today dozens of Google engineers use Python, and we're