[Baypiggies] Topic proposal for September Baypiggies meeting

[John Wegis]

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On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Tony Cappellini <cappy2112 at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Hello Everyone
>
> Below is the Bio & abstract for the September meeting.
> Please vote or express your thoughts on this topic
>
> Title: Duck typing and testing - two halves of the same coin.
>
> Background:
> Paul Biggar founded and runs CircleCi, where he makes easy-to-use, hosted
> continuous integration and deployment. In past lives, he's worked on the
> Javascript engine at Mozilla, done a PhD in compiler optimizations, static
> analyses and dynamic languages, and started a YCombinator startup.
>
> Synopsis: Duck typing revolutionized the software world and enabled
> Python, among many other languages. While making it easy to start projects
> and produce working code very quickly, maintenance of large code bases was
> made more difficult. Testing solved this, at a price. A philosophical
> discussion about software, testing, typing, and Python.
>
> I will be taking a class on Thursdays from Sept-Nov and will be busy
> unable to attend the Baypiggies meetings.
>
> Fortunately, the following people have stepped up to coordinate the
> meetings in my absence.  John Wegis, David Galbi, Stephen Mcquay, Glen
> Jarvis
>
> Thanks
>
> Tony
>
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