Seeing as how this the omaha pm list, I doubt that [m]any of you are in pittsburgh, pa today. But just in case, you can apparently just show up to this talk by Larry Wall.
-tim
SCS Special Presentation
Friday, 8 October 2010
4:30 pm
Rashid Auditorium - Gates&Hillman 4401
Open to all. Conference registration still possible (great deep discounts for students)
LARRY WALL
Creator of the Perl Programming Language (and more...)
Studies in the Ballistic Arts
Abstract:
The design of the Computer Language Perl was influenced by mathematics, linguistics,
chemistry, music....and ballistics. Come find out why computer programming is a ballistic art.
Bio:
Larry Wall was educated at various places including the Cornish School of Music, the Seattle Youth Symphony, Seattle Pacific University, Multnomah School of the Bible, SIL International, U.C. Berkeley, and UCLA. Though trained primarily in music, chemistry, and linguistics, Larry has been working with computers for the last 35 years or so. He is most famous for writing _rn_, _patch_, and the Perl programming language, but prefers to think of himself as a cultural hacker whose vocation in life is to bring a bit of joy into the dreary existence of programmers. For various definitions of "work for", Larry has worked for Seattle Pacific, MusiComedy Northwest, System Development Corporation, Burroughs, Unisys, the NSA, Telos, ConTel, GTE, JPL, NetLabs, Seagate, Tim O'Reilly, the Perl Foundation, and himself. Larry is currently employed by NetLogic Microsystems in Santa Clara, California, because they think he knows something about pattern matching.