Any Melbournian Perl jockies who might be interested in this? Apologies for the off-topic post. -----
Subject: Fwd: Damian Conway on Perl 6 -- February 17 Tuesday 17 February, 11am WEHI Lecture Theater (http://www.wehi.edu.au/about/locations.html) Parkville Prof Damian Conway School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University. Title: The Perl 6 Programming Language Abstract: Perl 6 will be a major improvement on Perl 5 in many ways: syntactically, semantically, psychologically, and performance-wise. This talk looks at what is known, surmised, guessed, wished for, and dreaded about Perl 6. It discusses the history, motivations, syntax, semantics, and likely idioms of the new Perl. About the speaker: Damian Conway holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and is an Honorary Associate Professor with the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He is also the CEO and chief presenter of Thoughtstream Pty Ltd, an I.T. training company based in Australia. Thoughtstream provides world-class Perl training to Fortune 50 corporations, educational institutions, and government agencies around the world. Damian is the author of numerous well-known Perl software modules including: Class::Contract, Text::Autoformat, Parse::RecDescent, Text::Balanced, Lingua::EN::Inflect, Class::Multimethods, Switch, Quantum::Superpositions, NEXT, Filter::Simple, Attribute::Handlers, Inline::Files, and Coy (all available from your local CPAN mirror). A leading member of the international Perl community, Damian was the winner of the 1998, 1999, and 2000 Larry Wall Awards for Practical Utility. He is a member of the technical committee for the annual Open Source Conference, and author of the book "Object Oriented Perl". Renowned for his skills as a speaker, and for the entertaining and often off-beat nature of his technical talks, Damian is widely sought-after as a conference speaker. Currently Damian is collaborating with Larry Wall on the design of the new Perl 6 programming language. ********************************************************************** This email message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of addressed recipient(s). If you have received this email in error please notify the Spotless IS Support Centre (61 3 9269 7555) immediately who will advise further action. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. ********************************************************************** -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
