[VPM] website is updated eh?
Darren Duncan
darren at DarrenDuncan.net
Wed Oct 6 14:55:54 CDT 2004
I have now updated the Victoria.pm website with the new announcement.
What it says, exactly, is displayed below. I suggest altering any
future email announcements to include my first line, about the
connection to Parrot. -- Darren Duncan
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October 19, 2004 Meeting
Alan Ezust will give a talk about Python, Perl's twin pillar in the
Parrot project.
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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