[Software-Development] Is anybody out there?

[Dellis Hines]

I think you've hit on it, Grant.  The vast majority of
what the SD Sig seems to want to focus on is dead,
even insofar as what hobbyists want to know or learn. 
I mean, yes, you can't be a moron and either write or
learn to write Delphi apps.  By the same token, Delphi
was a pretty esoteric splinter of the developer
community, and is based on a (until recently) pay for
play development tool from ONE company that services
ONE platform (Windows).  It also lends itself to a
development metaphor, that of standalone, native
compiled, GUI 'panel apps', that is rapidly shrinking
in importance and need by the day.

OTOH, what have grown significantly in importance and
interest are:

- Internet enabled languages (server side, etc)
- Cross platform development
- Non-native compiled languages that run in virtual
machines (e.g., Java; PHP, Ruby and any number of
languages are likewise headed in the same directlion)
or are directly interpreted
- Meta programming topics focused on code and project
management (using meta tools to propagate new code
from code, design patterns, test first before coding,
etc)
- Free, vendor independent development tools and
leveraging open source code and projects

All of which dovetails nicely into your points about
Perl and PHP, but which are equally applicable to
technologies such as Java/J2EE, Ruby, Python and
others.

I would really like to see this group branch out from
its beginnings (this used to be the Delphi SIG, after
all) to something more pertinent and useful, and
broader in scope.

--- "Grant G. Root" <grant at rootcentral.org> wrote:
> On 27 Mar 2005 at 21:16, Joe Wirtley wrote:
> 
> > At the last meeting, I said I would send a message
> out to the list. So
> > here it is... There were four of us at the last
> meeting and the
> > biggest question on our minds was how to get
> people to come to
> > meetings. So what would you like to see at
> meetings that would entice
> > you to be there? Any topics in particular you´d
> like to see? Would
> > you like to see a change in the format of
> meetings? Are there any
> > suggestions, complaints, requests?
> > 
> > Let´s try to strike up a conversation on this list
> to help
> > re-energize the group. Write back with suggestions
> or questions.
> 
> I haven't attended more than one or two meetings
> because I do 
> scripting in PHP and Perl, and the group seemed to
> be focused on 
> Windows programming in Delphi or C.
> 
> However, I'd be interested in attending general
> presentations on OOP 
> or design patterns.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Grant Root
> http://www.rootcentral.org/grant.php
> 
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> Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
> -- Alan Turing
> 
> 
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