FW: Princeton ACM/IEEE-CS Nov 18 Meeting

[Chastain, Jack (Jack)** CTR **]

Anyone interested in attending this lecture by Mark this Thursday?

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> From: 	John DeGood[SMTP:jdegood at nerc2.nerc.com]
> Sent: 	Monday, November 15, 1999 11:20 PM
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> Subject: 	Princeton ACM/IEEE-CS Nov 18 Meeting
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>      PRINCETON ACM / IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY CHAPTERS
>                NOVEMBER 1999 JOINT MEETING
> 
>        The Perl Language and the Lambda Calculus
>                    Mark-Jason Dominus
> 
>          Alternate title:  "Perl is a superset
>         of the lambda-calculus, or how to write
>           a 163 line program to compute 1+1."
> 
> Although an interpreter for the lambda-calculus can be
> implemented in almost any modern programming language, it is
> easier in some languages than in others.  For example, a
> parser and evaluator for lambda-expressions is built into
> most Lisp systems, with the 'lambda' special form
> constructing lambda-expressions, and function application
> form applying them.
> 
> It may come as a surprise that the popular programming
> language Perl also has the lambda-calculus built into it in
> the same way.  This talk will explain the usefulness of
> the lambda-calculus to computer scientists (no prior
> knowledge of it is required), show its effectiveness as a
> model for computation, and then demonstrate a Perl program
> that performs computations with recursive functions using
> nothing more than function abstraction and application.
> 
> Mark-Jason Dominus is a well-known expert in the Perl world.
> He is a regular columnist for the Perl Journal and has
> written articles on automatic memoization, ray tracing,
> infinite data structures, and pattern matching.  He is a
> software consultant, a Perl trainer, and a lecturer on
> system and network security, web application development,
> and Perl wizardry.  He lives in Philadelphia.  Mark-Jason's
> Web page on Perl is <http://www.plover.com/~mjd/perl>.
> 
> Date:     Thursday, November 18, 1999, 8:00 pm
> Location: Auditorium, Sarnoff Corporation,
>           201 Washington Road (Rt 571 1/4 mile
>           south of US 1), Princeton, NJ
> Additional Information: recorded info (609) 924-8704,
>           Dennis Mancl (908) 582-7086,
>           or David Soll (215) 854-3461
> 
> A pre-meeting dinner with the speaker is held at 6 p.m. at
> the Rusty Scupper on Alexander Road in Princeton.  If you
> would like to attend, please call the information number to
> record your reservation on the answering machine.
> 
> Princeton ACM / IEEE Computer Society meeting are open to the
> public.  Students and their parents are welcome.  There is no
> admission charge, and refreshments are served.
>