When:
Friday, June 25th.
Where:
UTS Broadway, Room 01.04.06
SLUG's Monthly Meeting. Meetings are open to the general public and free
of charge.
Please note the change of rooms. This month's meeting will be held in
room 01.04.06. That is building 1, level 4, room 6. A map of UTS is
availible from http://www.uts.edu.au/about/mapsdirections/bway.html.
General Talk: Meet the members
SLUG invites meeting attendees to stand up and introduce themselves,
pinp FOSS projects they're involved in and tell us how they use Linux.
Special Interest: Andre Pan - Beyond C, C++, Python and Perl.
As a Linux user or developer, you probably know a few programming and
scripting languages: shell scripting, Perl perhaps, Python, C or C++,
and maybe Java or XSLT. Once you've learnt one systems language or one
scripting language, you've learnt them all, right? Especially because
of that "Turing-complete" thing...
In this talk, Andre will explore the reasearch amd developments that
have happened outside of mainstream programming languages in the past
decase, in languages such as Objective-C, Haskell, O'Caml, and Nemerle.
"The scope of the talk is broad: I'll touch on many topics, such as
meta-programming, generics, type systems, and proof-carrying code,
without going too in-depth into any of them. (Believe me, you don't
want to hear me talk for seventeen hours about type systems.) Most of
the topics covered (such as meta-programming) are not language-specific,
and can be directly applied to your own work, increasing your own
programming expertise and repertoire of techniques."
"The aim is to make the audience aware of the advanced ideas which have
been present in other languages and try to carry over the same ideas in
your current programming environment, or maybe even pick one of the
other languages mentioned and explore how you can use them as a tool in
your daily tasks. If you've ever thought "there must be a better way" as
the Python script or C program you wrote did the wrong thing again,
you're right -- come to this talk to find out how! :)"
SLUGlets will be held in room 02.04.10 (Building 2, Level 4, Room 10)
Quick talks and discussion of Linux and Free Software.
Dinner
Dinner will be held at Spice Boys (Indian) at $20 per head.
6:30pm: Doors Open
6:45pm: The Usual Suspects
Q&A - Introduction to SLUG + "What has Linux done for/to me
lately?" + SLUG News & Discussion + Quick Meeting Survey.
7:00pm: General Talk
Meet the members of SLUG.
8:00pm: Break
Refreshments in the foyer, for a small covering charge.
8:20pm: Split into two groups for:
Special Interest Talk: Andre Pang - Beyond C, C++, Python, and Perl
SLUGlets: Quick talks and discussion of Linux and Free Software.
9:30pm: Dinner
Dinner at Spice Boys (Indian), $20 per head.
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