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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="2010-07-29T19:00:00" datetime="2010-07-29T19:00:00">Thursday, July 29, 2010 from 7</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2010-07-29T21:00:00" datetime="2010-07-29T21:00:00">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><strong>This month</strong> we'll be running <a href="http://rakudo.org/">Rakudo *</a> to get some exposure to the new Perl 6 language features and check out the Rakudo * ("star") release (a Perl 6 implementation on <a href="http://parrot.org">Parrot</a>.)</p> <p>The <em>*</em> series is a more featured, predictable, and stable user-focussed release than the git master or monthly development releases of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler. This is less cutting-edge than the current development version, and is intended to give early users a relatively slow-moving target to experiment with language features and use cases.</p> <p>Speaking of slow-moving, Rakudo is really, really slow. This is not the production-grade performance you know from Perl 5, this is the westside's MO of oddball programming language geekery and bloody stumps. We're so cutting edge, we might even start the meeting before the release tarball drops. Just in case, here's the instructions for building git master rakudo:</p> <pre> git clone cd rakudo perl Configure.pl --gen-parrot make make install PATH=$PWD/parrot_install/bin:$PATH perl6 -e 'say "hello"' </pre> <p>Perl 6 is a substantially different language from Perl 5. If you haven't kept up with the developments in the last few years, now is a good time to take it for a spin.</p> </div> </div>