Yet Another Perl Conference

Jeff Wheeler writes "Yet Another Perl Conference is a cheap, rogue perl conference at Carnegie Mellon University on June 24 - 25. Speakers will include Chris Nador, Kevin Lenzo, Jonathan Chafee, Mark-Jason Dominus, Randal Schwartz, and, of course, Larry Wall. YAPC should cost less than 100$US. "

Chris Na_N_dor

[pudge]

Please fix it. :)

Unrelated Perl Question

[paulzilla]

when is the algorithms book due out? sounds nifty to me....

Hmm, maybe I'll go...

[pen]

Finally, a conference within a reasonable distance from my house. I'd probably go even if it was about something I don't really need. I just need the company of some fellow geeks. Hehe.

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CMU - cool...

[hank]

I'm a junior in high school and I'm going through the college application times. I'm taking my SAT I's May 1, SAT II's June 5, and my AP tests in June also. I'm thinking about applying to Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Georgia Tech, Stevens, RIT, and Rennsalear. My mom won't let me goto Caltech or Stanford if I even get in (fat chance...hehe), so I'm not even applying. If I don't get into MIT, CMU seems like the place for me to be. Hopefully over spring break I can go visit the campus and if I'm lucky, attend a conference! ;o

Exactly!

[Fastolfe]

The reason there's so much unreadable Perl code out there is because it *is* so easy to learn, so you get a LOT of novices/inexperienced coders writing Perl scripts without any clear understanding of how to write good clean code.

You usually find that someone with a lot of good, clean coding experience (doesn't matter what language) tends to write good, clean Perl code as well.

Mmmmm CMU

[aheitner]

Hehehehe

15-212 in Java is history. ML only. And we code in C++ freshman year, unlike the poor bastards at MIT in Scheme (a LISP for those not familiar). My friend at MIT ported his raytracer to Scheme to win the freshman programming contest.

Very little I've seen yet matches the rigor of the freshman courses 15-129 and 15-251 (as I'm sure all the /.'ers who were in 129 and are in 251 with me will agree :).

If you wanna visit give me a wire [e-mail] ... unless it's during _our_ spring break (last week of march) in which case you should come back when we're in session. And we have interesting speakers just about every day of the week if you're interested.

Perl conferences

[jacrawf]

Would anyone happen to know if there is to be a Perl conference in the Pacific Northwest area anytime soon?

Pittsburgh

[adatta]

Being based out of Pittsburgh and having to constantly fly anywhere to get anywhere important, this is a nice change of pace. I'm also a CMU alumnus and I also worked professionally for CMU six months and one thing I can say for sure -- life there sucks -- but it does look good on your resume, and there is a lot of opportunity there (the atmosphere helped me start ML.ORG)... In any case, the airport is very nice :)

Beats Damn OReilly

[pudge]

They are not meant to compete, so there will be no market deciding anything. If anything, they will, ideally, complement each other.

I have my own gripes about the pricing for the ORA conference, [dejanews.com] but I don't know there is much that can be done. This year it is in Monterey, which will be even more expensive, I think. But realize that the ORA conference is not for hackers, it is for businesses. The market the Perl Conference is aimed at, it seems, is used to paying that kind of fee for a conference. And hey, it helps pay for www.perl.com [perl.com], so it can't be all bad. :)

Chris Na_N_dor

[clintp]

NaN? Not a Number? C'mon, I'd rank him at least a small integer. :-)

Hooray! Finally something affordable!

[clintp]

This about fits in my budget, I just can't wait for an adjenda to be published. Awesome.