[TriLUG] Scripting Users Group?

[Ken VanDine]

Did I see Pike listed there... I am a huge Pike fan... I am impressed :-)  Does this mean you have used Roxen as well?  

--Ken


On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 07:02:02AM -0500, Brent Verner wrote:
> [2001-12-14 07:26] Tom Bryan said:
> | On Friday 14 December 2001, Brent Verner wrote:
> | 
> | > I believe Tom Bryan mentioned forming a python user group; search
> | > the archive to see if my memory is completely gone or not ;-).  
> | 
> | Nope.  That would be me.  Java, C/C++, PL/SQL developer by day, Python hacker 
> | by night.  :-)  Although I lean strongly to Python, a general 
> | Perl/PHP/Python/Ruby/Tcl/etc.  group would be fun...as long as it was free of 
> | religious wars.
> 
> What! no religious wars?  You mean we have to use Reason to steer
> people in the right direction?  :-)
> 
> | I feel that a post about a Python or Perl problem is offtopic for this list 
> | unless I'm specifically writing something related to Linux.  For example, 
> | scripting backups on my Linux box are on topic no matter what language I use. 
> | General quastions about how to access a postgres database programatically 
> | would be inappropriate, no matter which language I'm talking about.  If a 
> | scripting at trilug.org were created, I'd join.
> 
> +1 : code at trilug.org?
> 
>   Like you, I'm a language hack (perl,java,c,c++,objc,python,tcl,pike);
> mostly because /(ProgrammingIs)+/.  I think a general programming list
> focused on linux programming[1] would be a very nice addition to the
> trilug repertoire.
> 
> [1] meaning that the membership would be free to call questions about
>     non-linux platform specific API "Offtopic".
> 
> | I'm not sure whether a sublist is appropriate or whether this list should be 
> | part of an entirely separate group.  For example, if we created a 
> | scripting at trilug.org, would discussions of C++ programming be inappropriate? 
> | Certainly, how to get Perl working on a win32 box, or how to use COM from 
> | Python seem to be way off topic, no matter what sublist is created.  How do  
> | programming/software topics fit into trilug's mission? 
> 
>   Trilug currently does a good job of addressing needs of users and
> admins of linux.  ISTM that trilug should seek to accomodate 
> developers that use linux.
> 
> my $.02
>   b "it's waaaay too late to be sending email..." v
> 
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