[LA.pm] Damian Conway, Guest Presenter at TO.pm

[Matt Follett]

I am really new to the area but would like to go.  Is there anyone in  
the Anaheim/Fullerton area planning to go to this that I could  
carpool with?

thanks,
Matt Follett

On Jul 10, 2006, at 6:53 AM, Aran Deltac wrote:

> This coming Wednesday, July 12th, ValueClick Inc. has sponsored Dr.  
> Damian Conway to speak at the Thousand Oaks Perl Mongers.  Here is  
> an overview of the talk that Damian will be conducting:
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> Extreme Perl – The Horror That Is SelfGOL
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> In this talk Damian dissects the SelfGOL program: an obfuscated,  
> self-aware, viral quine that can:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Please RSVP to adeltac at valueclick.com if you plan on attending so  
> that we get enough food and chairs for everyone!
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> Thanks,
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> TO.pm
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> More about Damian:
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> Damian Conway holds a B.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science.
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> 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.
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> 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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