[Groningen-pm] Fwd: [AmsterdamX-pm] March 18th: Damian Conway: Everything You Know About Regexes Is Wrong

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> From: sawyer x <xsawyerx at gmail.com>
> Date: 5 Mar 2014 16:35:05 GMT+1
> To: Amsterdam eXpats Perl Mongers <amsterdamx-pm at pm.org>
> Subject: [AmsterdamX-pm] March 18th: Damian Conway: Everything You Know About Regexes Is Wrong
> Reply-To: Amsterdam eXpats Perl Mongers <amsterdamx-pm at pm.org>
> 
> Damian Conway is an extraordinary speaker from Australia: not only his
> knowledge is renowned, he also tells an enthusiastic story on any subject
> like no other can.  Twice a year, he travels around the World to teach and
> give seminars.  We are lucky to have him visiting Holland for a few days.
> 
> The Amsterdam and AmsterdamX Perl Mongers, and the NLUUG invite the
> Open Source community for a seminar on "Regular Expressions".  Damian
> is tied into the Perl community, however this presentation is programming
> language independent.  Find the abstract below.
> 
>    Tuesday 18 March 4pm till 6pm
>    Theater "De Kleine Komedie", Amstel 56-58, 1017 AC Amsterdam
>    Free entrance, registration not required.
> 
> Sponsored by Booking.com, NLUUG & SPPN
> 
> --- Abstract
> 
> *** Everything You Know About Regexes Is Wrong ***
> 
> For most programmers, regular expressions are a riddle wrapped in a
> mystery inside an enigma shrouded in line-noise.
> 
> So most sensible programmers either don't use them at all (and are thereby
> forced to reinvent worse wheels...badly), or else they fall back on an
> "evolutionary programming" approach: find an existing regex that looks
> like it might do, then randomly permute its "genome" over and over again
> until it appears to work.
> 
> In this talk we'll go back to basics and discover that regexes mostly
> aren't what you think they are, mostly don't work the way you were told
> they did, and mostly shouldn't be created the way everyone tells you to.
> 
> More usefully, we'll also talk about what regexes really are, how they
> actually work, and see how normal programmers can make use of their
> existing software development skills to construct correct and efficient
> regexes...without selling their souls or losing their minds.
> 
> --- About the presenter
> 
> http://damian.conway.org/About_us/Bio_formal.html
> http://damian.conway.org/About_us/Bio_informal.html
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