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Date:	Fri, 25 Apr 2003 17:48:39 PDT7
From:	"Lynn H. Maxson" <lmaxson@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	SCOUG Programming SIG <scoug-programming@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: June next, May skip

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SCOUG will make every attempt to have an actual
demonstration of the "gold code" CD for eCS 1.1 in May by Kim
Cheung. I'm not going to fight the tide here in terms of having
enough time available for the Programming SIG. Arbitrarily I
have not scheduled a Programming SIG meeting for May with
some guarantees that in June this habitual runover of the
main meeting will not occur.

That gives us some time to consider what revisions we might
want to make to the Programming SIG pages on the SCOUG
website. If we pursue the "comparative linguistic" theme with
the programming languages we know and some we feel we
may want to know, then we might offer what we learn and
develop as tutorials to assist others in shortening the learning
curve to have more of a comfort zone in tackling different
languages.

One possibility lies in seeking out pertinent examples of
different useful and common algorithms and in writing them in
each of the languages. In that manner we can see the
similarities and differences among the languages.

Along with this we have to address PM programming as
supported by the various language implementations. We could
do this in a similar "comparative PM" programming manner.

I want to both thank Greg for his presentation and apologize
for not insisting that we had more time for Q&A. I come away
with a clarification between his use of lists in Python, actually
more aligned with vectors and arrays of APL, and my use of
the term in list processing. Over time as we work through
some of these semantic differences in viewing programming
languages as a whole maybe we can provide insight to others
to prevent their stumbling through mis-interpretation.

I thank everyone for their patience. It will get better once we
have the proper amount of time during the monthly meeting.

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