If you're interested enough in the subject matter, but you haven't written a language or compiler or whatever else, then I think you should attend anyway.
Maybe you might learn enough to push you over the edge to either do your own thing or to begin to help one of the existing language projects. Who know? If you're interested, but can't go, why not start anyway. Go for it. On Aug 18, 8:57 am, Pete F <[email protected]> wrote: > I may be way off in the weeds here -but if you aren't actually > working on a JVM language, is it really appropriate to turn up? > > It would be a shame if John Rose missed an opportunity to chat with > Neal Gafter, cause I was trying to get him to autograph my mouse-pad - > if you see what I mean. > > I would love to go -what's not to love about a small conference with > that kind of talent, talking dirty about languages? In all honesty, > if it weren't for the small matter of flying across the world I > probably would go -but I would feel compelled to have a crack at some > kind of jvm compiler first > > Instead: Stay home and watch the videos, (over and over and over) - > this way you get to pause the video while you take a quick refresher > on polymorphic inline caches. > > When you are done, watch the videos from Microsoft's reciprocal > conference; lang.net (two excellent 2009 videos with john rose for > example). These summits bring to mind accounts of ww1 soldiers at > christmas coming out of the trenches and playing football with "the > enemy". > > Note also (fromhttp://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/jvmlangsummit/) > the following: > > >>Space is limited: This summit is organized around a single classroom-style > >>room, to support direct communication between participants. There will be a > >>mix of presentations of various lengths. We have reserved Sun’s largest > >>conference room, which seats up to 90. If the available space fills up, > >>presenters and implementors will be given priority.<< > > a bigger party is not always a better party (in fact -beyond a pretty > low threshold a bigger party is almost never a better party) . The > nice thing about this party is that if you want to put in the work, > you can go. > > Pete F > > -yes yes, i concede that the posse should get a couple of press- > passes. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
