[VPM] website is updated eh?

[Darren Duncan]

I have now updated the Victoria.pm website with the new announcement. 
What it says, exactly, is displayed below.  I suggest altering any 
future email announcements to include my first line, about the 
connection to Parrot. -- Darren Duncan

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October 19, 2004 Meeting

Alan Ezust will give a talk about Python, Perl's twin pillar in the 
Parrot project.

Python, a relatively new cross-platform free object-oriented 
scripting language, has managed to gain a remarkable acceptance among 
the open-source community, as demonstrated by applications such as 
Google and Zope. It has drawn its influences from many languages, 
cherry-picking the best features of them all, and providing a very 
clean programming language on top. C++, Lisp, Java and Smalltalk 
programmers will all recognize features they know and love, but perl 
programmers will immediately notice some inspirations from from there 
too. As far as I know, it has everybody's favorite feature, and at 
the same time, encourages very good programming habits.

In this talk, we will dissect a few code examples based on some Gang 
of Four (Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides) design patterns combined 
with recipes from the Python Cookbook. You will learn some advanced 
(and recent) features of the python language.

S. Alan Ezust
University of Victoria, British Columbia
Department of Computer Science
http://www.csc.uvic.ca/~sae