Hello, Python cousins, Since there seems to be a lot of interest in your ANTLR talk next month, I thought I'd invite anyone who is interested in parsing/state machines to come along to Ruby Ireland this coming Tuesday where I will be talking about Ragel state machines. (Of course, you're always welcome to join us - check our mailing list but we're usually 2nd tues of each month so the day before you usually meet.) There is no python target for Ragel (yet anyway), but it does have C or Java options.
If you want to come along then pop over to the Ruby Ireland google group and add a +1 so we have an idea of the numbers. http://groups.google.com/group/ruby_ireland/browse_thread/thread/6f2d9ba7fa13004 Here's the blurb: My talk will be on using state machines in web applications. I will have a demonstration of how to use the Ragel state machine generator in an ActiveRecord model (and by extension in a Rails application) or in a DataMapper model, but I will also be talking about using Acts As State Machine (which someone pointed out to me is now in Rails core). State machines are a concise and very robust way of encoding your business logic. Using a state machine can provide an elegant solution to the "back button" problem in designing web applications and they are a great way of keeping track of tasks you want to do outside the request/response cycle, like sending confirmation emails. State machines are very practical, lots of fun and really not that scary. In fact, it's very likely you already use state machines on a daily basis without realizing it: if you've ever written a regular expression, you've used a state machine. Now imagine having something as powerful as a regular expression but for all your business logic. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" 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.ie/group/pythonireland?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
