[Thousand-oaks-pm] Damian Conway, Guest Presenter at TO.pm

[Daniel.Sherer at healthnet.com]

This coming Wednesday, July 12th, ValueClick Inc. has sponsored Dr. Damian
Conway to speak at the Thousand Oaks Perl Mongers. Damian is a prominent
member of the Perl community and exponent of object-oriented programming,
and the author of several books, including
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Here is an overview of the talk that Damian will be conducting:

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Extreme Perl – The Horror That Is SelfGOL

In this talk Damian dissects the SelfGOL program: an obfuscated,
self-aware, viral quine that can:

      self-replicate,
      rewrite other Perl programs to allow them to self- replicate,
      detect un-rewritable Perl programs,
      execute itself or other Perl programs as cellular automata of
      arbitrary size (to play Conway's "Game of Life"),
      animate any short text as a cycling marquee banner.

SelfGOL accomplishes these feats in under 1000 bytes of standard Perl,
without importing any modules, and without using a single if, unless,
while, until, for, foreach, goto, next, last, redo, map, or grep.

To do all that in under 1K of code, it relies on some extreme programming
techniques, and on many of the obscure backwaters of the Perl syntax. This
talk explores both.

In other words, it's everything you never wanted to know about Perl, and
would have been afraid to ask.
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The talk is scheduled for 7pm to 9pm.  Bring your appetite, as pizza and
drinks will be provided.  More information about the event can be found on
our site: http://thousand-oaks-perl.org/.  Directions to the ValueClick
office may be found here:
http://thousand-oaks-perl.org/bin/view/Main/ValueClick.  If you live in the
LA basin please attend the event – WestLake is closer to LA than Thousand
Oaks and the drive up here will be well worth it.

Please RSVP to adeltac at valueclick.com if you plan on attending so that we
get enough food and chairs for everyone!

Thanks,

TO.pm

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More about Damian:

Damian Conway holds a B.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science.

A widely sought-after speaker and trainer, he is also the author of
numerous well-known software modules including: Parse::RecDescent (a
sophisticated parsing tool), Class::Contract (design-by-contract
programming in Perl), Lingua::EN::Inflect (rule-based English
transformations for text generation), Class::Multimethods (multiple
dispatch polymorphism), Text::Autoformat (intelligent automatic
reformatting of plaintext), Switch (Perl's missing case statement), NEXT
(resumptive method dispatch), Filter::Simple (Perl-based source code
manipulation), Quantum::Superpositions (auto-parallelization of serial code
using a quantum mechanical metaphor), and Lingua::Romana::Perligata
(programming in Latin). All of this software is available free from your
local CPAN mirror.

A well-known member of the international Perl community, Damian was the
winner of the 1998, 1999, and 2000 Larry Wall Awards for Practical Utility.
The best technical paper at the annual Perl Conference was subsequently
named in his honour. He is a member of the technical committee for The Perl
Conference, a keynote speaker at many Open Source conferences, a former
columnist for "The Perl Journal", and author of the books "Object Oriented
Perl" and "Perl Best Practices". In 2001 Damian received the first "Perl
Foundation Development Grant" and spent 20 months working on projects for
the betterment of Perl.


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