Phoenix.pm: Dan Sugalski

intertwingled intertwingled at qwest.net
Mon Jun 3 21:57:29 CDT 2002


At 02:16 PM 6/3/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Doug this is what I am going to send to the New Times.  Let me know what
>you think.  
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Is this going on the Back Page?  =P

(j/k)

=)

>Dan Sugalski will be speaking about the Internals of Parrot as part of
>the summer Perl Foundation fundraiser tour hosted by the Perl Mongers of
>Phoenix group.  This is a short, high-level overview of Parrot, the
>interpreter for Perl 6.  Suggested donation is $50 to attend although
>any amount is appreciated.  He will be speaking on June 20 at 7pm and
>seating is limited.  For information or reservations please contact Erik
>at 623-340-5405 or email Erik at erik at jundy.com.
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>On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 11:41, Doug Miles wrote:
>> Doug Miles wrote:
>> > Dan Sugalski of Parrot fame will be giving his "Parrot Internals" talk 
>> > on June 20th.  This is part of a fund raising tour for The Perl 
>> > Foundation: http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/14/1757228
>> > 
>> > There will be a suggested donation of $50, however, it is not required. 
>> >    If you want to give more, or less, feel free.  If you are unemployed, 
>> > don't worry about it. :)  I'm not sure what time or where it will be 
>> > yet.  I'd like to get an idea of how many people are going to be there 
>> > to see if we can host it at Bowne.  Let me know if you plan to be there.
>> > 
>> > Please let me know if you are aware of Python or Ruby group here in 
>> > town.  Bill, will you forward this to PLUG, to see if they have any 
>> > interest?  Have them RSVP to doug.miles at bpxinternet.com.
>> > 
>> > For those of you who don't know:
>> > 
>> > Parrot is a virtual machine used to efficiently execute bytecode for 
>> > interpreted languages - specifically, Perl 6, although we would like to 
>> > keep the door open for other languages in the future. As such, Parrot 
>> > will be the core of the Perl interpreter; it will be the target platform 
>> > to which Perl 6 code is compiled.
>> > 
>> > More info at:
>> > 
>> > http://www.parrotcode.org/
>> > 
>> > 
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>> Here's some more info:
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>> The talk will be at 7:00pm.  We'll have dinner beforehand.  Send in your 
>> restaurant nominations.  It should probably be close to downtown, 
>> because we will most likely have the talk at Bowne.
>> 
>> Anyone out there want to forward this info to the PLUG list, and find 
>> out how many people are interested?  Once I find that out, I can descide 
>> on where to hold it.  Thanks!
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