BayLISA meeting: Larry Wall

["Laura de Leon" <hplabsz.hpl.hp.com">deleon]

The BayLISA group meets monthly to discuss topics of interest for
administration of sites with more than 100 users and/or computers.
The meetings are free and open to the public.

October 20th: Larry Wall, Netlabs: PERL 5

Perl is a language that attempts to unify concepts from many languages,
both natural and artificial.  This attempt has been at least partially
successful, to judge by the increasing popularity of Perl.  Originally
perceived as a text-processing language for writing impenetrable one-liners,
Perl has recently developed into a language that can be used in polite
company.

Larry Wall, the author of Perl, will talk about what happens when you
try to combine all your favorite languages into one language.  He'll
present the original design rationale (or, more accurately, irrationale)
for Perl, and how "Perl philosophy" is evolving with the development of
Perl version 5, and why you should care.


NOTE:  Election time is coming up in November, with the candidates
	forum at the October meeting.  If you've been thinking about
	running for the board, send a message to blwbaylisa.org
	for more information.

BayLISA holds monthly meetings on the third Thursday of each month at
7:30 PM (please do not arrive before 7:00).  We meet at Synopsys
Building C in Mountain View, California off Highway 237 at Middlefield.

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from the majordomo server on baylisa.org, you can ftp it from

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