Proposed Discussions

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Burning Topics for Discussion

The idea is we just talk over a subject for half an hour or so, get peoples views and ideas.

* Round Table Discussion - 'What Projects can we come up with for Google's summer of code?'

• • Questions:
  • more info at http://code.google.com/soc/2008/

* Round Table Discussion - 'Where is Perl going?'

• • Questions:
  • Will Perl6 save the day

* Round Table Discussion - 'Are dynamic languages are the way forward'

• • Questions:
  • When should you use a static language?

* Round Table Discussion - Why do fully OO databases never seem to catch on?

• • Questions:
  • Are ORMs a dirty hack, or a neat fix to a problem?

* Round Table Discussion - 'What things from other languages do you wish were in Perl?'

• • Questions:

* Round Table Discussion - '"Why did PHP win?" '

• • Questions:
  • What exacly has PHP won?
  • When would use recomend PHP rather than Perl?
  • Under what circumstances would you consider using PHP?

* Round Table Discussion - 'Are dynamic languages are the way forward'

• • Questions:
  • When should you use a static language?

* Round Table Discussion - 'XML, YAML, JASON, When and where?'

• • Questions:

* Round Table Discussion - 'Do you use features?'

• • Questions:
  • use feature qw( shinyNewStuff );' keeps offering us more snippets of Perl6 syntax.
  • Which ones are you using?