[ale] [90dw-lcthw] Updated the README file

[leam hall]

Horkan, thanks!

There's at least one IRC channel and and a message board we can use if we
get stuck. However, it's always nice to have that ALE touch.

Leam

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Horkan Smith <ale at horkan.net> wrote:

> I can help answer occasional questions or provide some direction, but I
> sorry to say I have too many things already on my plate to be a true
> mentor.  Maybe if there are a few others who also have the knowledge but
> not the time, we can share the effort and not hold you back.
>
> I originally learned C in classes at Tech in '87 or so and have used it
> most of my career; but the last 5-10 years I've been in more of a lead /
> architect role, so I'm pretty rusty and may be out-of-date with newer
> approaches.
>
> FWIW, my first languages were Apple Basic and Pascal, then C.  I've always
> found my best asset to be an understanding of how the code is actually
> executed by the machine - how do the stack and heap work, how arguments are
> passed during function calls, etc; but in turn I sometimes have trouble
> with higher level languages until I can figure out how they actually
> implement a feature I'm not familiar with.
>
> later!
>    horkan
>
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 06:57:03AM -0500, Leam Hall wrote:
> > I've updated the README with a "How to join" section and some other
> > minor notes. If you are interested in participating, please give it
> > a look and follow through. If you are an organizer type person, let
> > me know how to improve the project.
> >
> > We're still looking for a Sage in Residence (SiR) to help if we get
> > stuck. I will warn new C programmers, if you go to the C channel on
> > Freenode you get bashed if you think anything but K&R C and the
> > attendant book. You have to develop a bit of a emotional
> > disengagement.
> >
> > Note the [90dw-lcthw] in the subject line. ALE is looking at
> > different mentoring groups and this might be one way to use the
> > single mailing list yet keeping things sortable. Let me know if
> > there's a better way.
> >
> > Leam
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