[conspire] CABAL meeting, Saturday, Feb. 8th!

[Elise Scher]

Hi People,
     I just need a job. Please help. I used to program for a living for 16
years.

Thanks,
Elise Scher

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020, 6:08 AM Nick Moffitt <nick at zork.net> wrote:

> On 10Feb2020 10:43am (-0800), Deirdre Saoirse Moen wrote:
> > I was hoping Ruby wouldn’t drop off so hard, but frankly its community
> hasn’t stepped up as much as Python’s has, and it’s tended to support the
> libraries more than the core. (And yes, I know, I’m part of this too.)
>
> Ruby's a nice language! I think it helped break a lot of ice that Python
> later sailed through afterward, in terms of showing:
>
> 1: That the old ALGOL-related iteration structures weren't cutting it in
> the 21st century.  Whether we wanted cool message-passing tricks from
> Smalltalk or sequence comprehension tricks from Haskell, we just were
> getting tired of wrapping *everything* in 1960s-style loops.
> 2: That a novel mapping of MVC-style thinking into a
> template/dispatch/ORM/action model of Web development was a pretty good way
> forward.
> 3: That the world was actually ready to start adopting dynamic languages
> for serious stuff again.
>
> 1 and 2 were helpful for the progress of Python specifically, and #3 was
> more general in the adoption and uptake.
>
>
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