[Tucson-pm] What the Perl Mongers meeting was like last week (on July 13th)

[Chris Niswander]

I arrived at about 6:05, to find Steve Baker and Paul Scott 
already there.  We hung out and chatted about Perl and related topics
until a little after 8pm.  (Any errors in the following summary are my own.)

Steve talked some about how Perl is used internally at AOL for many
things, including version control.  In his work for AOL he programs in Perl
for hours every day.  He said that of the seventeen different platforms 
he supports within AOL (various versions of UNIX and Windows), the only 
languages he's gotten to compile on all seventeen are Perl and TCL 
(gcc was too much of a struggle on IRIX and AIX.)

I was intrigued to hear that his experience programming in Perl
made LISP easier for him, presumably because some of Perl's more 
advanced features helped him to better relate to LISP.

Paul develops software and teaches, and also uses computers to help him
with writing music and typesetting it as sheet music.  His use of Perl
includes connecting together pieces of C++ code in music software.

I was kind of tired and IMHO didn't say much interesting at all!

We didn't get around to talking about when the next meeting should be.
I think we'll have to use this mailing list to work that out.

Chris
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At 10:52 AM 7/19/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Chris,
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>How was the meeting? I was sick all last week and couldn't make it, but
>was curious how it turned out. Will there be another?
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>-jason
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>Chris Niswander said:
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>> Tuesday July 13th, 2004
>> 6 pm
>> Apple Farm Restaurant
>> Northwest corner of 1st and Grant.
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>> If you're using an Internet map service (e.g. MapQuest),
>> 850 E. Grant, Tucson AZ should take you to within a block.
>>
>> Chris
>>
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