No kidding. I was a member of DFW PM a few years ago
and
was honored and pleased to attend a couple of talks by
a Perl
Monger I much admire and respect, Damian Conway.
I was also honored to win one of the door prizes: an
autographed
copy of his book on OO Design with Perl, for asking the
most
interesting question.
The talks were quite
mind-blowing. Here is a transcript of
the notice and
abstracts.
Damian Conway
Perl guru extraordinaire
will be here for two days this month!
Wednesday::June 27, 2001 Damian
will give his notorious talk on:
Quantum::Superpostions
(sik) (should be "Superpositions)
This
talk explains how to adapt the Perl programming language to quantum
computing
and vice versa, with applications for prime generation, list
membership
testing, maxima and minima detection, string comparison, and
winning the
office football pool, all in constant time without loops or recursion.
Along
the way, we'll also touch on the physics of chocolate, parallel
programming,
motor racing, the Scottish vegan movement, ancient Latin,
Mick Jagger's love
life, winter sports, the secret of the humble potato,
fashion modelling,
anagrammatic encryption, modern German, cruelty to animals,
and the antics of
the 1930's chapter of Copenhagen.pm
(Dr. Conway first delivered this talk
at the 2000 YAP Conference. ...)
Thursday::June 28, 2001 Damian will
give his talk on:
Extreme Perl
In this talk I dissect
the SelfGOL program: an obfuscated, self-aware,
viral quine that can:
*
self-replicate
* rewrite other Perl programs to allow them to
self-replicate,
* detect un-rewritable Perl programs,
* execute itself or
other Perl programs as cellular automata of arbitrary size
(to play Conway's
"Game of Life"),
* animate any short text as a cycling marquee
banner.
SelfGOL accomplishes these feats in under 1000 bytes of standard
Perl,
without importing any modules, and without using a single if, unless,
while,
until, for, foreach, goto, next, last, redo, map, or grep.
To do
all that in under 1K of code, it relies on some extreme
programming
techniques, and on many of the obscure backwaters of the Perl
syntax.
This talk explores both. In other words,
it's everything you never wanted
to know about Perl, and
would have been afraid to ask.
I took copious notes, but couldn't hope to duplicate those talks.
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=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--
Wayne A.
Haufler
Senior Software Engineer (SE)
In Space Shuttle Program
(SSP)
Backup
Flight System (BFS) Tools Group
Boeing, NASA Systems, Houston
Voice: 281-226-8626 , Cubicle:
1C23
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Skills :
Unix,C,C++,Perl,SQL,QNX,X-Windows
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It doesn't happen often, but Dallas is showing us
up:
The [0]Dallas/Fort Worth Perl Mongers are pleased to announce
that brian
d foy will presenting at the technical meeting on May 23rd. It
will be held at [1]nerdbooks.com, [2]1681 Firman Drive, Richardson, TX 75081
and
will begin at 6:30 pm. brian will be presenting the chapter entitled
"The Magic of Tied Variables" from his upcoming book [3]"Mastering
Perl".
A social will more than likely be held afterwards at a seperate
location
(to be announced).
Discuss this story
at:
http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=06/04/27/027251
Mike
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 07:08:31 -0500
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Subject: Re: [pm-h] Brian Foy going to
Dallas
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On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 06:34:50 -0500
Mike Flannigan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> It doesn't happen
often, but Dallas is showing us up:
>
>
> The [0]Dallas/Fort
Worth Perl Mongers are pleased to announce that
> brian d foy will
presenting at the technical meeting on May 23rd. It
> will be held at
[1]nerdbooks.com, [2]1681 Firman Drive, Richardson, TX
> 75081
and
Much as I hate to agree with this, the DFW Perl Mongers group does
appear to be much more active than ours. If anyone has any ideas on how to
improve this situation, feel free to let the group know.
G.
Wade
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