[VPM] Meeting Announcement

abez abez at abez.ca
Wed Oct 6 11:56:13 CDT 2004


Perlmongers Victoria
Tuesay Oct 19
7:00 pm in CIT120 (Harry Hickman Building).

At the next Perlmongers Victoria, Alan Ezust will give a talk about Python. 

Python, a relatively new cross-platform free object-oriented scripting 
language, has managed to gain a remarkable acceptance among the open-source 
community, as demonstrated by applications such as Google and Zope. It has 
drawn its influences from many languages, cherry-picking the best features of 
them all, and providing a very clean programming language on top. C++, Lisp, 
Java and Smalltalk programmers will all recognize features they know and 
love, but perl programmers will immediately notice some inspirations from 
from there too. As far as I know, it has everybody's favorite feature, and at 
the same time, encourages very good programming habits.

In this talk, we will dissect a few code examples based on some Gang of Four 
(Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides) design patterns combined with recipes from 
the Python Cookbook. You will learn some advanced (and recent) features of 
the python language. 

	S. Alan Ezust
	University of Victoria, British Columbia
	Department of Computer Science
	http://www.csc.uvic.ca/~sae



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