[barcampgr] Topics

[Zach Dennis]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Adam Tauno
Williams<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 09:59 -0400, John Van Enk wrote:
>> Would any one be interested in Haskell + Light Weight Domain Specific Languages?
>
> Interested, yes.  I hear about these all the time;  I'd really like to
> see a demonstration where the productivity gain justifies the existence
> of yet-another-language.

Sounds like a good session topic. I'd like to sit in on this kind of
discussion (not necessarily pertaining strictly to Haskell, but *why*
languages need to be justified in order to exist).


> All I ever hear about such things are
> theoretical arguments [which usually remind me of the time a 'CS guru'
> scolded me on why the use of COBOL was syntactically more appropriate to
> financial applications vs. using object oriented tool chains].
>
>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Matt Heusser<matt.heusser at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > If I can make it this year, i'd consider doing either "testing for
>> > developers'" or possibly something on "interfacing with tippies"
>> > tippies are people who are neuro-typical.  They consider themselves
>> > "normal."  They don't watch star trek, or even Babylon 5.  /They/ would call
>> > the talk something like "How to win friends and influence people."  Crazy.
>> > And they think there is something wrong with /us/ and call us aspergers or
>> > austic.
>> >
>> > wi
>
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