[clug] July tech talks

[George at Clug]

On Wednesday, 17-07-2019 at 16:06 Michael Still via linux wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 1:05 PM Bryan Kilgallin via linux <
> linux at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > Steve wrote:
> >
> > > Just a reminder that this month's talks will be a series of short
> > > technical talks.
> >
> > Please would speakers post in advance, the URL of an intro page on their
> > topic.
> >
> 
> For mine, if you don't understand the content of
> https://pypi.org/project/aussiebb/ you will get little to nothing from the
> talk.

Michael,

Thanks for the link. Please note: I have not as yet downloaded your sample code.

I have been a Microsoft Visual Basic programmer, and a C programmer in the past. I am very interested in Python. Attended a few Python courses. I will endeavor to get up to speed for you talk. 

I have come to understand that Python is a language that 1) uses garbage collection for memory management and 2) is so object oriented that every think is an object, including an integer, something that would require me to rethink my way of programming, coming from a C and C++ background.  It is a pity that most programmers seem to find managing memory management themselves difficult, and that this has caused languages have to manage it for them, but I expect it leads to more stable programs, I would never feel safe if people used C for managing nuclear reactors.

Though I guess to understand your actual topic of "Reverse Engineering the Aussie Broadband portal" I would require knowledge of network protocols? And that Python is simply the language (i.e. tool) that you are using to communicate with the "Aussie Broadband portal" ?

George.

> 
> Michael
> -- 
> linux mailing list
> linux at lists.samba.org
> https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/linux
>