[pm-h] Qore talk slides

B. Estrade estrabd at gmail.com
Fri Sep 9 07:45:43 PDT 2011


Here's one in 8 languages - http://ideology.com.au/polyglot/

Brett

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:43 AM, B. Estrade <estrabd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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