On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:09:51 -0400, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
I understand that Andrew Edwards declined to have his talk recorded, and
the
slides have not been uploaded either. So, what was it actually about?
The
abstract is ... not exactly informative. :-P
I can do my best here, from memory. If I get anything wrong, please
correct me!
The first part of Andrew's talk was about his personal journey to the
point where he was standing before us. Service in the Marine Corps (thank
you, Andrew), an interest in computers, being someone who was always
inspired to contribute to society as a software developer. His talk
included several funny anecdotes, I would not do them justice to repeat
them here from my bad memory :)
So then he talked about Akeron, his company that he wants to use to
promote several things. One is helping people learn about D. To that
end, he has established the web site dtutor.org (which Andrei registered
during his talk I believe). See his announcement here:
http://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]
If I recall correctly, he has interest specifically in Natural Language
Processing, and in helping people learn D. There was also something about
the USMC trying to develop some sort of software that they had difficulty
finishing, and I think he wanted to help them develop that using D, but I
am really quite unsure of the details on that. I'm sure at some point, it
will become more clear.
It was an unusual talk, to say the least. And I applaud his efforts to
try and help people learn how to program, especially in D. I would like
to see a premier and popular site spring out of dtutor.org.
I know this is short on details, but it was over a month ago. Andrew, you
may want to post an executive summary of your talk based on your slides,
to set the record straight :)
-Steve
