[pm-h] Brian Foy going to Dallas (Wayne Haufler)

Haufler, Wayne A Wayne.A.Haufler at boeing.com
Fri Apr 28 12:56:25 PDT 2006


No kidding.  I was a member of DFW PM a few years ago and
was honored and pleased to attend a couple of talks by
a Perl Monger I much admire and respect, Damian Conway.

I was also honored to win one of the door prizes: an autographed
copy of his book on OO Design with Perl, for asking the most
interesting question.

The talks were quite mind-blowing.  Here is a transcript of
the notice and abstracts.

Damian Conway
Perl guru extraordinaire will be here for two days this month!

Wednesday::June 27, 2001 Damian will give his notorious talk on:
Quantum::Superpostions (sik)   (should be "Superpositions)

This talk explains how to adapt the Perl programming language to quantum
computing and vice versa, with applications for prime generation, list
membership testing, maxima and minima detection, string comparison, and
winning the office football pool, all in constant time without loops or
recursion.
Along the way, we'll also touch on the physics of chocolate, parallel
programming, motor racing, the Scottish vegan movement, ancient Latin,
Mick Jagger's love life, winter sports, the secret of the humble potato,
fashion modelling, anagrammatic encryption, modern German, cruelty to
animals,
and the antics of the 1930's chapter of Copenhagen.pm

(Dr. Conway first delivered this talk at the 2000 YAP Conference. ...)


Thursday::June 28, 2001 Damian will give his talk on:
Extreme Perl

In this talk I dissect the SelfGOL program: an obfuscated, self-aware,
viral quine that can:
* self-replicate
* rewrite other Perl programs to allow them to self-replicate,
* detect un-rewritable Perl programs,
* execute itself or other Perl programs as cellular automata of
arbitrary size
(to play Conway's "Game of Life"),
* animate any short text as a cycling marquee banner.

SelfGOL accomplishes these feats in under 1000 bytes of standard Perl,
without importing any modules, and without using a single if, unless,
while,
until, for, foreach, goto, next, last, redo, map, or grep.
To do all that in under 1K of code, it relies on some extreme
programming
techniques, and on many of the obscure backwaters of the Perl syntax.
This talk explores both.  In other words, it's everything you never
wanted
to know about Perl, and would have been afraid to ask.

I took copious notes, but couldn't hope to duplicate those talks.

-- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- 
Wayne A. Haufler 
Senior Software Engineer (SE) 
In Space Shuttle Program (SSP) 
Backup Flight System (BFS) Tools Group 
Boeing, NASA Systems, Houston 
Voice:  281-226-8626 , Cubicle: 1C23 
E-mail: wayne.a.haufler at boeing.com 
Skills    :  Unix,C,C++,Perl,SQL,QNX,X-Windows  

(Disclaimer: The comments and opinions expressed are my own and do not
represent the view of  Boeing, United Space Alliance, JSC, or NASA.)



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   1. Brian Foy going to Dallas (Mike Flannigan)
   2. Re: Brian Foy going to Dallas (G. Wade Johnson)


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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 06:34:50 -0500
From: Mike Flannigan <mikeflan at earthlink.net>
Subject: [pm-h] Brian Foy going to Dallas
To: "Houston.pm located in Houston, TX." <houston at pm.org>
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It doesn't happen often, but Dallas is showing us up:


The [0]Dallas/Fort Worth Perl Mongers are pleased to announce that brian

d foy will presenting at the technical meeting on May 23rd. It will be
held at [1]nerdbooks.com, [2]1681 Firman Drive, Richardson, TX 75081 and

will begin at 6:30 pm. brian will be presenting the chapter entitled
"The Magic of Tied Variables" from his upcoming book [3]"Mastering
Perl".

A social will more than likely be held afterwards at a seperate location

(to be announced).

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=06/04/27/027251


Mike




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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 07:08:31 -0500
From: "G. Wade Johnson" <gwadej at anomaly.org>
Subject: Re: [pm-h] Brian Foy going to Dallas
To: "Houston.pm located in Houston, TX." <houston at pm.org>
Message-ID: <20060428070831.2b8a078f at sovvan>
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On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 06:34:50 -0500
Mike Flannigan <mikeflan at earthlink.net> wrote:

>
> It doesn't happen often, but Dallas is showing us up:
>
>
> The [0]Dallas/Fort Worth Perl Mongers are pleased to announce that
> brian d foy will presenting at the technical meeting on May 23rd. It
> will be held at [1]nerdbooks.com, [2]1681 Firman Drive, Richardson, TX
> 75081 and

Much as I hate to agree with this, the DFW Perl Mongers group does
appear to be much more active than ours. If anyone has any ideas on how
to improve this situation, feel free to let the group know.

G. Wade

--
If there's no problem, there's no solution.         -- Rick Hoselton


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