From coopercc at netheaven.com Mon Nov 8 16:54:57 1999 From: coopercc at netheaven.com (Clark Cooper) Date: Wed Aug 4 23:56:43 2004 Subject: Albany Perl Mongers meeting 11/9 Message-ID: <199911082254.RAA00720@camel> Another meeting at Troy Brew Pub Tuesday 11/9 at 6 as usual. Due to Thanksgiving & holiday season scheduling conflicts, this may be the last meeting this year. From chastain at lucent.com Tue Nov 16 09:57:37 1999 From: chastain at lucent.com (Chastain, Jack (Jack)** CTR **) Date: Wed Aug 4 23:56:43 2004 Subject: FW: Princeton ACM/IEEE-CS Nov 18 Meeting Message-ID: Anyone interested in attending this lecture by Mark this Thursday? > ---------- > From: John DeGood[SMTP:jdegood@nerc2.nerc.com] > Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 11:20 PM > To: groupname-announce@plts.org > Subject: Princeton ACM/IEEE-CS Nov 18 Meeting > > PRINCETON ACM / IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY CHAPTERS > NOVEMBER 1999 JOINT MEETING > > The Perl Language and the Lambda Calculus > Mark-Jason Dominus > > Alternate title: "Perl is a superset > of the lambda-calculus, or how to write > a 163 line program to compute 1+1." > > Although an interpreter for the lambda-calculus can be > implemented in almost any modern programming language, it is > easier in some languages than in others. For example, a > parser and evaluator for lambda-expressions is built into > most Lisp systems, with the 'lambda' special form > constructing lambda-expressions, and function application > form applying them. > > It may come as a surprise that the popular programming > language Perl also has the lambda-calculus built into it in > the same way. This talk will explain the usefulness of > the lambda-calculus to computer scientists (no prior > knowledge of it is required), show its effectiveness as a > model for computation, and then demonstrate a Perl program > that performs computations with recursive functions using > nothing more than function abstraction and application. > > Mark-Jason Dominus is a well-known expert in the Perl world. > He is a regular columnist for the Perl Journal and has > written articles on automatic memoization, ray tracing, > infinite data structures, and pattern matching. He is a > software consultant, a Perl trainer, and a lecturer on > system and network security, web application development, > and Perl wizardry. He lives in Philadelphia. Mark-Jason's > Web page on Perl is . > > Date: Thursday, November 18, 1999, 8:00 pm > Location: Auditorium, Sarnoff Corporation, > 201 Washington Road (Rt 571 1/4 mile > south of US 1), Princeton, NJ > Additional Information: recorded info (609) 924-8704, > Dennis Mancl (908) 582-7086, > or David Soll (215) 854-3461 > > A pre-meeting dinner with the speaker is held at 6 p.m. at > the Rusty Scupper on Alexander Road in Princeton. If you > would like to attend, please call the information number to > record your reservation on the answering machine. > > Princeton ACM / IEEE Computer Society meeting are open to the > public. Students and their parents are welcome. There is no > admission charge, and refreshments are served. >