People,
Is there an electronic summary of Andre's talk anywhere?
Thanks,
Phil.
On 2004.06.22 13:12, Chris Deigan wrote:
When:
Friday, June 25th.
Where:
UTS Broadway, Room 01.04.06
SLUG's Monthly Meeting. Meetings are open to the general public and
free
of charge.
Please note the change of rooms. This month's meeting will be held in
room 01.04.06. That is building 1, level 4, room 6. A map of UTS is
availible from http://www.uts.edu.au/about/mapsdirections/bway.html.
General Talk: Meet the members
SLUG invites meeting attendees to stand up and introduce
themselves,
pinp FOSS projects they're involved in and tell us how they
use Linux.
Special Interest: Andre Pan - Beyond C, C++, Python and Perl.
As a Linux user or developer, you probably know a few
programming and
scripting languages: shell scripting, Perl perhaps, Python, C
or C++,
and maybe Java or XSLT. Once you've learnt one systems
language or one
scripting language, you've learnt them all, right? Especially
because
of that Turing-complete thing...
In this talk, Andre will explore the reasearch amd
developments that
have happened outside of mainstream programming languages in
the past
decase, in languages such as Objective-C, Haskell, O'Caml, and
Nemerle.
The scope of the talk is broad: I'll touch on many topics,
such as
meta-programming, generics, type systems, and proof-carrying
code,
without going too in-depth into any of them. (Believe me, you
don't
want to hear me talk for seventeen hours about type systems.)
Most of
the topics covered (such as meta-programming) are not
language-specific,
and can be directly applied to your own work, increasing your
own
programming expertise and repertoire of techniques.
The aim is to make the audience aware of the advanced ideas
which have
been present in other languages and try to carry over the same
ideas in
your current programming environment, or maybe even pick one
of the
other languages mentioned and explore how you can use them as
a tool in
your daily tasks. If you've ever thought there must be a
better way as
the Python script or C program you wrote did the wrong thing
again,
you're right -- come to this talk to find out how! :)
SLUGlets will be held in room 02.04.10 (Building 2, Level 4, Room 10)
Quick talks and discussion of Linux and Free Software.
Dinner
Dinner will be held at Spice Boys (Indian) at $20 per head.
6:30pm: Doors Open
6:45pm: The Usual Suspects
QA - Introduction to SLUG + What has Linux done for/to me
lately? + SLUG News Discussion + Quick Meeting Survey.
7:00pm: General Talk
Meet the members of SLUG.
8:00pm: Break
Refreshments in the foyer, for a small covering charge.
8:20pm: Split into two groups for:
Special Interest Talk: Andre Pang - Beyond C, C++, Python, and
Perl
SLUGlets: Quick talks and discussion of Linux and Free
Software.
9:30pm: Dinner
Dinner at Spice Boys (Indian), $20 per head.
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