Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 12:49:26 -0800 From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Larry Wall to give a talk at Autodesk Message-ID: <19980216124926.52150@mooseriver.com>
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The World Wide Web Special Interest Group (Web SIG) of Softech Announces a
Presentation on:
"Perl: An Alternative to Java?"
by Larry Wall, the creator of the Perl scripting language.
Monday night, March 2nd at 7:00 PM
Softech members free; $10.00 for others.
Location: Autodesk
111 McInnis Parkway (behind the Embassy Suites Hotel)
San Rafael CA 94903
Web Site: http://www.softech.org/sigweb.htm/
For further information, contact:
David M. Snyder
(415) 499-3463
dmsnyder@well.com
With all the hoopla over Java, why is Perl creator Larry Wall convinced
that Perl will remain the language of choice for many Webmasters now and
for the foreseeable future? Hear the guru of Perl discuss what sets Perl
apart from other computer languages, and where Perl is going with respect
to multithreading, compilation, portability, and XML. Larry will explain
how, in the midst of all these exciting developments, the philosophy of
Perl never changes: easy things should be easy, and hard things should be
possible.
Our March meeting promises to be an exciting one. Perl is perhaps the most
widely used language for creating CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripts
for web sites. These are the scripts that are used for interactive,
user-driven applications, such as search engines and database connectivity.
With CGI, the web server can run a program using data input from the user.
Web pages containing requested data can be created "on the fly."
Larry Wall is Senior Programmer at O'Reilly & Associates (Sebastapol, CA).
In his copious free time :-) he has authored some of the most popular free
programs available for UNIX, including the rn news reader, the ubiquitous
patch program, and the Perl programming language. By training, Larry is
actually a linguist, having wandered about both U.C. Berkeley and U.C.L.A.
as a grad student. (Oddly enough, while at Berkeley, he had nothing to do
with the UNIX development going on there.)
More Information about Perl and Larry Wall:
Link to articles about the first Perl Conference, including Larry Wall's
keynote address, and many Perl Resources at http://perl.oreilly.com/
You can read an interview with Larry Wall by Dale Dougherty, CEO of
Songline Studios, at http://www.perl.com/
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Background:
The NORTH BAY SOFTWARE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION (Softech),
sponsored by Autodesk, Broderbund, Fair Isaac, and others, promotes the
software and information technology industries in the North Bay.
For more information about Softech, see the web site at
http://www.softech.org/
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