[luau] Programming List

[Ben Beeson]

Ray and others,

	I'll start by saying that I am probably one of the guilty parties you 
mention.  I know about enough about programming to be dangerous in the real 
world, and maybe enough to be able to cobble a solution to my question of the 
day together on a really good day.  I'll also say from what very little I 
know about programming, that programming in the *nix environment is not at 
all like what I remember from DOS/Win3.x.   I find that even standard C 
libraries are 'enhanced' in ways on *nix's that makes them behave slightly 
differently from the DOS/Windows way.  There is also the issue of how the 
shell interacts with programs and other things such as terminal interface and 
X.  

	I think some topics are probably more appropriate to programming forums, and 
other questions are appropriate to 'environment' forums.  For example, how a 
binary sort works is probably a programming forum question, but how to get a 
particular answer to display on a terminal is an environment question.  The 
last question I posed regarding the getch() function was supposed to be an 
environment question even though it was not so cleverly disguised as a C 
question.   I was very grateful for the help I got from this list with 
respect to that question, and was glad I could get it here.  

	I would hope that if we do start a programming list that we can make it, or 
at least a sub-part of it slanted toward the *nix environment so folks can 
get the right kind of help for the *nix environment.  I like the idea, but I 
wonder if we have enough interest in the LUAU to warrant splintering off 
another list.  If you do start one, sign me up so I can lurk and learn.

Cheers,

Ben 


On Thursday 06 June 2002 02:56 am, you wrote:
> Hi Everyone.
>
> I've noticed some programming threads popping up on LUAU lately.  While
> I don't thing anyone minds them, they are a bit offtopic.
>
> What do you all think about starting a local Comp Sci/Programming list?
> Do you think it would be a good idea, or do you think there isn't enough
> traffic/interest to warrant one?
>
> If everyone says no need, or no one responds to this message, then I
> won't start one.
>
> --Ray
>