February BOSS meetup thoughts

[Josh Adams]

So at present we have no facilitator and no topic :)

I'm going to be traveling Wed-Fri of that week, so I'll inevitably be a little weird with my time.  However, I'm traveling to give my "live code collaborative tetris from scratch in elixir" talk that I have to get down to 40 minutes by april, so I'd be willing to do that if anyone's interested.

There's also this concept that I find fascinating: https://twitter.com/PLIBMTTBHGATY

Anyone else have any ideas? :)

-Josh

[David Lormor]

PLIBMTTBHGATY sounds fun!  I've got a whole laundry list of languages I'd love to tinker with...Elixir (sorry, Josh), Clojure, Quorum, Haskell, etc. etc.  Anyone else have thoughts?

[Josh Adams]

I have literally never heard of "Quorum".  (goes and reads the http://quorumlanguage.com/ website)

Wow.  So I have a couple of thoughts on this one, off the top of my head (no real investment in anything yet).  The first is "neat idea."  The second is "wtf."  Curious how they are sure they started with solid enough footing (did they consider being functional and OO simultaneously?  Start out with ada-esque syntax?  Consider s-expressions?  Experiment to compare static v. dynamic, compiled v. interpreted, etc?.  Sounds....hard....to do what they're trying to do.

s/hard/intractible/

Anyway, very interested if you've had a chance to play with it :)  Thanks for the fun reference.

-Josh

[David Lormor]

Hey Josh,

Glad you found it "interesting"...I heard about this through a great Ruby Rogues podcast, you can listen here: http://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/184-rr-what-we-actually-know-about-software-development-and-why-we-believe-it-s-true-with-greg-wilson-and-andreas-stefik

It's a really great discussion about how they started development of the language (based on existing paradigms like Ruby, etc.) using the scientific method, as well as how little actual "science" we use in the "computer science" field.

I haven't actually had any time to play with the language, which is why I thought it would be perfect for the whole PLIBMTTBHGATY thing...

Any idea what the plans are for tonight?

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