[Omaha.pm] Larry Wall speaking in Pittsburgh today

[Tim]

Seeing as how this the omaha pm list, I doubt that [m]any of you are in
pittsburgh, pa today.  But just in case, you can apparently just show up to
this talk by Larry Wall.

-tim


SCS Special Presentation
--Hosted in conjunction with The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop (
http://pghpw.org/ppw2010/)
Friday, 8 October 2010
4:30 pm
Rashid Auditorium - Gates&Hillman 4401
Open to all. Conference registration still possible (great deep discounts
for students)


LARRY WALL
Creator of the Perl Programming Language (and more...)


Studies in the Ballistic Arts

Abstract:
The design of the Computer Language Perl was influenced by mathematics,
linguistics,
chemistry, music....and ballistics. Come find out why computer programming
is a ballistic art.


Bio:
Larry Wall was educated at various places including the Cornish School of
Music, the Seattle Youth Symphony, Seattle Pacific University, Multnomah
School of the Bible, SIL International, U.C. Berkeley, and UCLA. Though
trained primarily in music, chemistry, and linguistics, Larry has been
working with computers for the last 35 years or so. He is most famous for
writing _rn_, _patch_, and the Perl programming language, but prefers to
think of himself as a cultural hacker whose vocation in life is to bring a
bit of joy into the dreary existence of programmers. For various definitions
of "work for", Larry has worked for Seattle Pacific, MusiComedy Northwest,
System Development Corporation, Burroughs, Unisys, the NSA, Telos, ConTel,
GTE, JPL, NetLabs, Seagate, Tim O'Reilly, the Perl Foundation, and himself.
Larry is currently employed by NetLogic Microsystems in Santa Clara,
California, because they think he knows something about pattern matching.
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