NMGLUGers, We had a nice and lively meeting last night. We did not go into
the scraping and other web issues/apps. We did, well some of did, have an
in depth discussion of programming languages and styles. Also shell
preferences to some extent. It was wide-ranging and covered a little
nostalgia for the early conditions of programming in the 70's-80's. Some
discussion of C and C++ and the problems of writing and compiling in a neat
and orderly fashion - and the growth in size of programs due to the
environmental limitations, hence Meson/mesonbuild, python, rust, GIT and
DVC were discussed. We did range around a bit. Then shells, with support
even for the powershell, not a Gnu/Linux item that. However, Bash, zsh,
csh, tcsh and a few others were mentioned. As always there is the Emacs
environment in which to code and do other work. A particular point was made
that a shell script is a good thing, but not a substitute for using an
appropriate coding language when getting into more detail.
This is not a transcript of the meeting by any means.
We did decide to postpone the scraping until all those who expressed an
interest are present.
Thank you, Ted P, Santa Fe
