From doomvox at gmail.com Fri Dec 6 20:05:27 2024 From: doomvox at gmail.com (Joseph Brenner) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 20:05:27 -0800 Subject: [sf-perl] The SF Perl Raku Study Group, 12/08 at 1pm PST Message-ID: "The programmer may not even be aware that some of his coding is intended to compensate for a limitation of the machine. In which case he could hardly be expected to mark it. For instance, much programming has to be done to overcome the limited precision of our machines-- or better still, the fact that they do not calculate with real numbers but only with a limited set of rationals. Yet programmers tend to forget that these are limitations of the hardware and come to think of them as facts of life." Gerald M. Weinberg, "Psychology of Computer Programming" (1971) The Raku Study Group Dec 8, 2024, 1pm in California, 9pm in the UK An informal meeting: drop by when you can, show us what you've got, ask and answer questions, or just listen and lurk. Perl and programming in general are fair game, along with Raku, Zoom meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84636910896?pwd=ASoFTwywErjaEDn2XAa3GYfnab1alL.1 Passcode: 4RakuRoll -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From doomvox at gmail.com Fri Dec 20 19:53:11 2024 From: doomvox at gmail.com (Joseph Brenner) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 19:53:11 -0800 Subject: [sf-perl] The SF Perl Raku Study Group, 12/22 at 1pm PST Message-ID: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From doomvox at gmail.com Fri Dec 20 19:54:55 2024 From: doomvox at gmail.com (Joseph Brenner) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 19:54:55 -0800 Subject: [sf-perl] The SF Perl Raku Study Group, 12/22 at 1pm PST Message-ID: A. J. Ayer, "Logical Positivism" (1959): "... since the war the prevailing tendency in England has been to replace this uncompromising positivism with its blanket rejection of metaphysics, its respect for scientific method, its assumption that in so far as philosophical problems are genuine at all they can be definitely solved by logical analysis, by an approach to philosophy which is empirical ... Generalizations are distrusted, particular examples are multiplied and carefully dissected. An attempt is made to illuminate every facet of a problem rather than to hammer or carve out a solution, common sense reigns as a constitutional, if not an absolute, monarch, philosophical thrones are put to the touchstone of the way in which words are actually used. The metaphysician is treated no longer as a criminal but as a patient, there may be good reasons why he says the strange things that he does." The Raku Study Group December 22, 2024 1pm in California, 9pm in the UK An informal meeting: drop by when you can, show us what you've got, ask and answer questions, or just listen and lurk. Perl and programming in general are fair game, along with Raku, Zoom meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85910590572?pwd=PtpYfMk7swG5GU7JrIGOhF0HKKTXBG.1 Passcode: 4RakuRoll -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: