[socal-piggies] Meeting this Thursday 10/16 @ USC

[Grig Gheorghiu]

--- Diane Trout <diane at caltech.edu> wrote:

> 
> On Nov 13, 2006, at 10:36, Grig Gheorghiu wrote:
> 
> > Agenda:
> >
> > * Diane Trout: "Investigating Mono with Iron Python"
> > * George Bullis: "A first look at .NET programming with Iron Python
> by
> > a non-GUI programmer"
> 
> I'm planning on being there...
> 
> Hopefully there's not going to be too much overlap.
> 
> I didn't get as far as I'd wanted, and some of the components weren't
>  
> as mature as I'd assumed.
> 
> Currenlty I was planning on addressing
> 
> * My hope for mono
> * So who really is faster?
>    * Comparing the performance of CPython2.3, CPython2.5, Jython 2.2,
>  
> and IronPython snapshot
> * Where to find the ironpython/mono toolchain and how to get it to  
> work on OS X and Linux.
> * What parts of .NET is mono implementing?
> 
> Depending on my mood I might hit on some of the following:
>    * Gtk# and Gecko# (And the sad state of Qt#)
>    * wrapping native libraries to be called with mono,
>    * How many languages can I cram into one working example program.
> 
> Diane

My take on this kind of topic is that the more concrete examples /
working code you can show, the better off we (the audience) are.

Grig