[pm-h] Qore talk slides

[Erin Schoenhals]

Polyglots?

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 8:39 AM, B. Estrade <estrabd at gmail.com> wrote:

> I updated the slides a bit. I added something in the possible
> talk/discussion section.
>
> Because the regex example is valid in both Perl and Qore, I came up
> with something called the "Perqore" challenge (based on 'parkour') -
> the challenge is simply to write code that is valid in both Perl and
> Qore.
>
> I can't think of what it's called, but it'd almost be like when you
> try to have a single file that combines different programming
> languages, but is valid in all of them - e.g., hiding some of language
> X inside of what looks like a comment block to language Y. I've seen
> examples that combine 4 or more languages. I just can't find them atm.
>
> For Perl/Qore, it's a little different. You'll probably end up molding
> Perl to accept Qore's quirks rather than the other way around. So,
> there's no real hiding of code.
>
> IDK, just something to keep you busy....if anyone decides to accept
> such a challenge, it might make for an interesting lightning talk.
>
> Brett
>
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 10:31:36PM -0500, B. Estrade wrote:
> > I really enjoyed the meeting tonight. It was great to have so many
> > people talking about stuff. Thanks for organizing it, Wade.
> >
> > Thanks to Jake for pointing out a typo. Under Perl's threading/async
> > options I had "Core". I meant, "Coro".
> >
> > Fixed.
> >
> >       https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dcqfscq4_337hkvxt6fc
> >
> > Brett
> >
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