[ale] Notes on "90 Day Wonder" Mentoring

[Leam Hall]

Anyone planning on running a "90 Day Wonder" effort?

If so, now would be a good time to announce your plan. It gives us time 
to raid Amazon for our own gifts.  :)

Leam

On 11/20/2017 02:29 PM, leam hall wrote:
> Speaking of BK and crew, one of the conundrums that always gets me is C 
> vs Go. The former has user base and recognition. And underpins Ruby. The 
> latter builds off the lessons of the former.
> 
> Not sure which compiled language would be best to learn, if I had to 
> pick one. I'm a bit slow so "one" takes a while.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 2:07 PM, James Taylor 
> <James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com <mailto:James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     Speaking of K&R, anyone remember this story?
> 
>     " Brian Kernighan has an automobile which he helped design.
>     Unlike most automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gauge, nor
>     any of the numerous idiot lights which plague the modern driver.
>     Rather, if the driver makes any mistake, a giant "?" lights up in the
>     center of the dashboard.  "The experienced driver," he says, "will
>     usually know what's wrong."
> 
>     -jt
> 
> 
>     James Taylor
>     678-697-9420 <tel:678-697-9420>
>     james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com <mailto:james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com>
> 
> 
> 
>      >>> Joey Kelly <joey at joeykelly.net <mailto:joey at joeykelly.net>>
>     11/20/2017 12:33 PM >>>
>     On Monday, November 20, 2017 12:36:11 PM leam hall wrote:
>      > To be honest, I'd rather do Ruby. However, Ruby is written in C and
>      > provides connections to run C programs directly. That would seriously
>      > motivate me to get back into C as well.
> 
>     I never said I wanted to program in C, I said that K&R is incredibly
>     good.
> 
>     --
>     Joey Kelly
>     Minister of the Gospel and Linux Consultant
>     http://joeykelly.net
>     504-239-6550 <tel:504-239-6550>
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