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SUMMARY:Public Talk by Damian Conway about the Raku programming language
DTSTART:20200312T093000
DTEND:20200312T113000
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DESCRIPTION:Damian Conway\nDear Colleagues\,\n\nWhile Damian Conway will b
 e in town next week for his now traditional series of classes\, he will al
 so give a public talk about the Raku programming language (also known as P
 erl6). It is likely to be interesting to many of you... and certainly good
  fun as well.\n\nIt will take place in the Amphi at the Biophore building 
 on the UNIL Dorigny campus\, on Thursday 12 March between 9:30 and 11:30.\
 n\nTitle: On the Shoulders of Giants: 400 Years of Raku\n\nAbstract:\nRaku
  is a new and astonishingly powerful dynamic multiparadigm programming lan
 guage. Though it was only officially released in 2015\, it has actually be
 en in development for well over four centuries.\n\nIn this presentation\, 
 Dr Damian Conway (one of the core designers of Raku) 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: f
 rom the heroine of Regency Era number theory\, to the boffin whose crazy t
 heory won the war\, to the champions of free-love non-determinism in the p
 sychedelic ’60s\, to the sub rosa inventor of modern encryption\, to the
  enigmatic rōshis of declarative quantum computation.\n\nAlong the way\, 
 we’ll explore the world’s least-obvious sequence\; the world’s first
  sorting algorithm\; the world’s worst sorting algorithm\; the art and s
 cience of just guessing\; how to write Lisp in any language\; the joy of s
 ubscripts\; feline drug abuse\; the world’s worst sorting algorithm...op
 timized\; the perils of high precision\; the advantages of anonymity\; Leo
 nardo’s reward\; Monte Carlo\, Monty Hall\, and Monty Python\; and how t
 o pack your bags more efficiently by destroying the entire universe (and p
 ossibly several others we passed along the way).\n\nVery best\,\nSCITAS Te
 am & Swiss Institut of Bioinformatics
LOCATION:UNIL - Biophore - Amphi
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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