On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Brian Marick <mar...@exampler.com> wrote: > If Gabriel is still the driving force behind Splash, he'd *like* it to be the > kind of meeting ground for industry and academia that the earlier OOPSLAs > were.
Reading http://www.splashcon.org/history/ I'm not very encouraged as to the practical, real world nature of Splash, but I do agree earlier OOPSLA and Object Technology conferences were much less academic, and certainly Gabriel's keynote at Strange Loop 2011 bemoaned the schism that seemed to have led to very separate "science" vs "engineering" conferences. I still think Alex is trying to do something radically different to Splash, based on an admittedly limited amount of reading... -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
