[pm-h] Qore talk slides

[B. Estrade]

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Erin Schoenhals <erin at morderwerk.de> wrote:
> Polyglots?

That's it! Thanks,

Brett

>
> 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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