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

[paulz at ieee.org]

 I suggest that everyone in the local area looking for their next job join  CSIXCONNECT (https://csix.org/). 
They have weekly meetings in Saratoga followed by an inexpensive lunch.  Great opportunity for networking.  

After a couple of meetings, you can decide if next week's speaker might be helpful to you or not.  Several times a year the program is a resume critique.  Definitely sign up to have your resume reviewed.
There is also a rather busy email list.  Job postings, job fairs and "looking for inside contact at company x".



    On Thursday, February 13, 2020, 7:30:04 AM PST, Elise Scher <elise.scher01 at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 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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