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Re: NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 16 January 2007 Perl Seminar NY: Mark Sullivan and Perrin Harkins |
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Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:41:47 -0500 |
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:59:14 -0500, secretary wrote:
> <blockquote
> what="official Perl Seminar NY announcement">
>
> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:28:39 -0500
> From: James Keenan <jkeen@verizon.net>
> To: nylug-talk@nylug.org
> Subject: [nylug-talk] Perl Seminar NY Tuesday January 16: Agenda
>
> Perl Seminar NY meets this Tuesday at 6:15 at NYPC Users Group, 481 8
> Ave (Ramada New Yorker, Suite 550-51), at West 34 St. We have two
> excellent presentations:
>
> (1) Mark Sullivan: "use, require, do, and eval"
>
> "use" is built on "require", which is built on "do", which is built on
> "eval". So they share a lot in common, but they offer different
> features and different restrictions. Mark will talk about how
> they're built,
> where each is appropriate, and how to handle each when it goes wrong.
>
> (2) Perrin Harkins: "Low Maintenance Perl"
> Perl is a language flexible enough to let you make your own decisions
> about how to use it. You can optimize your code for performance, for
> compactness, or even for entertainment value. But what if you want to
> optimize it for not getting support calls in the middle of the night
> about strange behavior on your web site? What if you want to optimize
> it for spending your Saturday at the movies instead of in the debugger?
>
> This talk will show you how to choose a dialect of Perl that suits
> your preferred level of risk. It won't be a simple prescription, but
> you will learn why avoiding certain constructs can lead to fewer
> nasty surprises and less difficulty integrating code written by a
> team. A little planning and a willingness to choose practical
> solutions over magic can really pay off in reduced debugging time.
>
> Perl gives you a lot of rope, but it's not too late to learn some new
> knots.
>
>
>
> Hope you can attend!
>
> Jim Keenan
> _____________________________________________________________________________
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