From doomvox at gmail.com  Tue May 24 10:28:21 2016
From: doomvox at gmail.com (Joseph Brenner)
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 10:28:21 -0700
Subject: [sf-perl] code self study group
Message-ID: <CAFfgvXVv31gvC536n15hXGUwSSQ8BK=Gp-v5G0ny1WoEvX5WjA@mail.gmail.com>

Just thought I'd mention that I've been hanging around with these guys lately:
  http://www.meetup.com/codeselfstudy/

This is folks with laptops hanging around in a meeting room at the
library, Wednesdays starting around 10am.  Seems like a
javascript/python crowd, mostly, some more perl folks would not be a
bad thing.

Myself I'll probably be playing around with the R statistical
language/application, though I keep meaning to look at perl6 some more
(I think the built-in set operations look interesting...).

They do cafe gatherings on Saturdays as well. This one is in Berkeley,
at that library that's next door to the Thai temple.

From scott at illogics.org  Tue May 24 10:40:41 2016
From: scott at illogics.org (Scott Walters)
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 10:40:41 -0700
Subject: [sf-perl] code self study group
In-Reply-To: <CAFfgvXVv31gvC536n15hXGUwSSQ8BK=Gp-v5G0ny1WoEvX5WjA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAFfgvXVv31gvC536n15hXGUwSSQ8BK=Gp-v5G0ny1WoEvX5WjA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAOae=fDv+KPKsQr5rob3WVEf5eiao8FGYKXA=TzSs8+BTExh1Q@mail.gmail.com>

Yes!  I have something Sat, but I'm going to aim for Wed morn.

Me and 300,000 other people are doing the Coursera Data Scientist
track, which uses R (and git, and MarkDown).  I seem to run in to
people everywhere doing that.  I should get out and check it out at
least one.

Cheers,
-scott

On 5/24/16, Joseph Brenner <doomvox at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just thought I'd mention that I've been hanging around with these guys
> lately:
>   http://www.meetup.com/codeselfstudy/
>
> This is folks with laptops hanging around in a meeting room at the
> library, Wednesdays starting around 10am.  Seems like a
> javascript/python crowd, mostly, some more perl folks would not be a
> bad thing.
>
> Myself I'll probably be playing around with the R statistical
> language/application, though I keep meaning to look at perl6 some more
> (I think the built-in set operations look interesting...).
>
> They do cafe gatherings on Saturdays as well. This one is in Berkeley,
> at that library that's next door to the Thai temple.
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From david at fetter.org  Tue May 24 11:35:25 2016
From: david at fetter.org (David Fetter)
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 11:35:25 -0700
Subject: [sf-perl] code self study group
In-Reply-To: <CAFfgvXVv31gvC536n15hXGUwSSQ8BK=Gp-v5G0ny1WoEvX5WjA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAFfgvXVv31gvC536n15hXGUwSSQ8BK=Gp-v5G0ny1WoEvX5WjA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20160524183525.GB11185@fetter.org>

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:28:21AM -0700, Joseph Brenner wrote:
> Just thought I'd mention that I've been hanging around with these guys lately:
>   http://www.meetup.com/codeselfstudy/
> 
> This is folks with laptops hanging around in a meeting room at the
> library, Wednesdays starting around 10am.  Seems like a
> javascript/python crowd, mostly, some more perl folks would not be a
> bad thing.
> 
> Myself I'll probably be playing around with the R statistical
> language/application,

The cool kids have moved onto SciPy/NumPy (C and FORTRAN wrappers) and
Julia for performance reasons.

> though I keep meaning to look at perl6 some more (I think the
> built-in set operations look interesting...).

Built-in set operations...wherever might we have already had this
since the mid-1970s?

I'm starting to understand how you feel bout all that stuff in emacs
that people pooh-pooh'ed.

> They do cafe gatherings on Saturdays as well. This one is in
> Berkeley, at that library that's next door to the Thai temple.

Neato!

Cheers,
David.
-- 
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From doomvox at gmail.com  Tue May 24 12:11:50 2016
From: doomvox at gmail.com (Joseph Brenner)
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 12:11:50 -0700
Subject: [sf-perl] code self study group
In-Reply-To: <20160524183525.GB11185@fetter.org>
References: <CAFfgvXVv31gvC536n15hXGUwSSQ8BK=Gp-v5G0ny1WoEvX5WjA@mail.gmail.com>
	<20160524183525.GB11185@fetter.org>
Message-ID: <CAFfgvXWRkf2W9MxPNDL167oT4iCW0sVYc8k1zBH8G-3gtdQUGQ@mail.gmail.com>

"Built-in set operations...wherever might we have already had this
since the mid-1970s?"

Yeah, exactly.

But it's a minor peeve of mine with perl5 that there's no standard set
operations package in the core library, so every time I need something
like a set difference I have to re-think how I want to do it.  I
thought it was kind of cool when I realized that perl6 has set ops in
the core, not just in a library, and it's funny that you can use the
standard mathematical symbols in unicode...

(Perl 6: APL for a new generation.)


On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 11:35 AM, David Fetter <david at fetter.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:28:21AM -0700, Joseph Brenner wrote:
>> Just thought I'd mention that I've been hanging around with these guys lately:
>>   http://www.meetup.com/codeselfstudy/
>>
>> This is folks with laptops hanging around in a meeting room at the
>> library, Wednesdays starting around 10am.  Seems like a
>> javascript/python crowd, mostly, some more perl folks would not be a
>> bad thing.
>>
>> Myself I'll probably be playing around with the R statistical
>> language/application,
>
> The cool kids have moved onto SciPy/NumPy (C and FORTRAN wrappers) and
> Julia for performance reasons.
>
>> though I keep meaning to look at perl6 some more (I think the
>> built-in set operations look interesting...).
>
> Built-in set operations...wherever might we have already had this
> since the mid-1970s?
>
> I'm starting to understand how you feel bout all that stuff in emacs
> that people pooh-pooh'ed.
>
>> They do cafe gatherings on Saturdays as well. This one is in
>> Berkeley, at that library that's next door to the Thai temple.
>
> Neato!
>
> Cheers,
> David.
> --
> David Fetter <david at fetter.org> http://fetter.org/
> Phone: +1 415 235 3778  AIM: dfetter666  Yahoo!: dfetter
> Skype: davidfetter      XMPP: david.fetter at gmail.com
>
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