[columbus.pm] Tommorrow's Meeting Summary

Charles Day Charles.Day at s1te.com
Mon May 19 10:17:28 CDT 2003


The chatterbot is a pain to program.  To answer 3 questions, you need to program it
50 million ways.  What time is it?  What's the time?  I wonder what freaking time it
is?  Do you know the time?  I have an Alice bot running I can program if you're
interested.  You need to know AIML.   It runs on perl.

cya tomorrow night.

Charles



> Next meeting is at Nationwide at Tuttle location on Tuesday, May 20, 5:30  PM. I
> (Jon Hogue) will be giving a summary of Perl 6. Pizza will be  served. For more
> information about the meeting, see
> http://columbus.pm.org.
>
> About Perl 6 from http://dev.perl.org/perl6/
> Perl6 is the next version of the Perl programming language.   The project
> attempts to address the interpreter, the language, and the culture.  The
> internals of the version 5 interpreter are so tangled that they hinder
> maintenance, thwart some new feature efforts, and scare off potential  internals
> hackers.  The language as of version 5 has some misfeatures that  are a hassle to
> ongoing maintenance of the interpreter and of programs  written in Perl.  And
> finally, the entire Perl community is invited to  participate in the design and
> implementation of perl6.
> "Perl 5 was my rewrite of Perl.  I want Perl 6 to be the community's  rewrite of
> Perl and of the community."
>
> --Larry Wall, State of the Onion speech, TPC4
> "When it comes to Perl 6 I'm no longer sure what's obvious and what isn't.  ;-)"
>
> --Damian Conway, <3D6A32FC.5030405 at conway.org>
>
> Also, we had talked about creating a chatter bot at one point. It might be  neet
> to create such a thing that would answer common questions about the  local Perl
> Mongers meeting. Ie, answer questions or have discussions about  the following
> things:
> When is the next meeting?
> What is the next meeting about?
> What is the Columbus Perl Monger?
> Where can I find local talented Perl Programmers?
> Why should I join the Columbus Perl Mongers?
>
> Finally, I have recently been thinking about offering some Perl learning  aid for
> non-Perl people. This would be a great Perl service to the  community, would
> promot Perl in general, and would help increase local  membership. Any thoughts on
> this idea?



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