Name: Damian Conway -- On the Shoulders of Giants: 400 Years of Perl 6
Start: 2016-06-28T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2016-06-28T22:00:00-04:00
Location: Mozilla Offices, Suite 500

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Perl 6 is a new and powerful language in the Perl family.
Though it's officially less than a year old, it has actually been in development for well over four centuries.

In this presentation, Damian will demonstrate some of the language's most useful, convenient, efficient, and just-plain-scary new features...by tracing the entire history of modern computing: from the heroine of Regency Era number theory, to the boffin whose crazy theory won the war, to the champions of free-love non-determinism in the psychedelic ’60s, to the sub rosa inventor of modern encryption, to the enigmatic rōshis of declarative quantum computation.

Along the way, we'll investigate the world's first sorting algorithm; the world's worst sorting algorithm; the art and science of just guessing; how to write Lisp in any language; the joy of subscripts; feline drug abuse; the world's worst sorting algorithm...optimized; the perils of high precision; the advantages of anonymity; Leonardo's long-overdue reward; Monte Carlo, Monty Hall, and Monty Python; and how to pack your bags more efficiently by destroying the entire universe.

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