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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.</div><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><br></div>
<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">-tim</div><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><br></div><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><br></div><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">SCS Special Presentation</div><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
--Hosted in conjunction with The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop (<a href="http://pghpw.org/ppw2010/">http://pghpw.org/ppw2010/</a>)</div><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">Friday, 8 October 2010</div><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
4:30 pm</div><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">Rashid Auditorium - Gates&Hillman 4401</div><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">Open to all. Conference registration still possible (great deep discounts for students)</div>
<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><br></div><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><br></div><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">LARRY WALL</div><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">Creator of the Perl Programming Language (and more...)</div>
<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><br></div><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><br></div><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">Studies in the Ballistic Arts</div><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><br></div><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
Abstract:</div><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">The design of the Computer Language Perl was influenced by mathematics, linguistics, </div><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">chemistry, music....and ballistics. Come find out why computer programming is a ballistic art.</div>
<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><br></div><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><br></div><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">Bio:</div><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">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. </div>
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