[VPM] Victoria Perl Mongers meeting January 18

[Peter Scott]

Victoria.pm will meet at its regular date and time, and a less common 
place, on Tuesday, January 18, 7pm, at UVic.  The location is David F. 
Strong Building C113.  See http://uvic.ca for maps if necessary.

At the first Victoria Perl Mongers meeting of 2005 we shall extend the 
holiday spirit a bit and entertain ourselves with an exploration of 
Damian Conway's SelfGOL.  See 
http://libarynth.f0.am/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Libarynth/SelfGOL for source.

Yes, it's obfuscated (duh).  But that doesn't mean that this will be 
(entirely) an exercise in unrolling useless obfuscation 
techniques.  We'll discover quite a few useful and interesting features 
of Perl along the way, useful and understandable to beginners and 
experts.  In fact, Conway bases an entire seminar on this topic 
(http://damian.conway.org/Seminars/Extreme.html).  We don't have as 
long as he usually takes, so we may not finish.  But we'll have fun 
nonetheless.  If you have a copy of the Camel or a laptop with Perl 
installed, bring it along.

This will be a freewheeling exploration of numerous features of Perl 
and the chance for everyone to ask questions and find out something new.

Other topics to be covered as time permits; make requests for anything 
particular.

(Courtesy copy to VLUG members by permission of the list 
manager.  Victoria.pm's home page is <http://victoria.pm.org/>.)
-- 
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
http://www.perldebugged.com/
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