[barcampgr] Topics

[Robert Klein]

First Barcamp.  Is presenting required?

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <
awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 10:50 -0400, Zach Dennis wrote:
> > 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).
>
> Why?  Because languages require resources to be developed, learned, and
> most importantly, maintained (code in those languages, specially when
> proficient developers may be scarce).
>
> I don't think the "existence" needs to be justified so much as the "use
> of"
>
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