[sb.pm] #4: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 at 6PM

[Kostas Pentikousis]

Dear fellow Perlistas,

The fourth Stony Brook Perl Mongers meeting (StonyBrook-PM-4,
http://stonybrook.pm.org/meetings.shtml) will be on

Wednesday, March 24, 2004 at 6PM in Computer Science Room 2313A.

Please note that this is on the second floor (see map at
http://www.cs.stonybrook.edu/csimages/building/2ndfloorCS.gif)

We hope that you will forward this email to your friends and
colleagues. You see we have slotted a 10-min "Introductions" item
on the agenda and we would like see many new faces!

PRESENTATIONS

Robert Rothenberg is our main speaker. He will be introducing
lists in Perl. Lists are a very powerful data structure and a
built-in data type in Perl. Are you making the most out of them?
Come and find out.

As part of our "replace your shell script with a more efficient
and portable Perl script", Kostas Pentikousis will show how to
execute system commands (or other programs) and parse their output
in Perl.


We have two open items on the agenda for future meetings:

 - We are looking for people to review visual development tools
   for Perl. So far we have identified the following:

   1. Visual Perl is the high-productivity Perl plug-in for Visual
      Studio .NET (http://www.activestate.com/Products/Visual_Perl/)

   2. Affrus 1.0 is an integrated Perl editing and debugging
      environment for Mac OS X (http://www.latenightsw.com/affrus/index.html)

   3. PerlEdit is an IDE for Perl and a general-purpose text
      editor (http://www.indigostar.com/perledit.html)

 - We are looking for people interested in receiving a free Perl
   book in exchange for a review on our web site and 10-min
   presentation to the group.


AFTER PARTY

As always, we will motion to move the meeting to a nearby
restaurant that serves adult beverages ;)


Best regards,

Kostas Pentikousis
Rob Rothenberg