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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">Westside Programmers</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2010-03-25T19:00:00" datetime="2010-03-25T19:00:00">Thursday, March 25, 2010 from 7</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2010-03-25T21:00:00" datetime="2010-03-25T21:00:00">9pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202390750'><span class='fn org p-name'>OTBC [Old location, do not use!]</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">12725 Sw Millikan Way, Suite 101</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Beaverton</span> , <span class="region p-region">OR</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97005</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=12725%20Sw%20Millikan%20Way,%20Suite%20101,%20Beaverton%20OR%2097005%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>A polyglot programming group meeting in the heart of The Beave. We seem to talk a lot about oddball programming languages and their features. And the usual geekery you'd expect from a programmer's group.</p> <p>This month we'll have a talk by David Hollingsworth on the Curl language (not to be confused with cUrl the commandline utility).</p> <p>Curl is a statically typed object-oriented language that JIT-runs in a browser plugin along with a large number of companion libraries and an IDE. Curl also has an internal tool for compiling to C, so Curl is >90% written in Curl. It is not related to the wget-like-library also called Curl. See <a href="http://www.curl.com">http://www.curl.com</a> for more.</p> <p>Some of the topics I can cover: * Why we (still) need a programming language for the Internet (and why Flash/JavaFX/Silverlight ain't it). * Mixing text and code: not the heresy XML advocates would have you believe. * Venture Capitalists ate my syntax: switching from Lisp-y Curl to C-y Curl. * Java Generics almost make me pine for C++ templates OR if {Array-of int} isn't a real type, your type system sucks. * Yes, Virginia, non-normalized Unicode means operations are O(n) (aka Strings are not really arrays of chars, but they're closer in Curl). * DSLs in Curl: source-to-source macros ala Lisp. * Refactoring is for wimps: a strong versioning mechanism partially mitigates the need for backwards-compatibility, but not entirely. * Plus the standard "ooh shiny" stuff.</p> </div> </div>