[TriLUG-announce] June 13 - Blinking lights! BLINKING lights! And also two talks on programming languages.

[Mauricio Tavares]

Presenters: Mark Sidell and Jack Hill
When: Thursday, 13 June 2019 - 6:45pm to 9:00pm
Where: NCSU College of Textiles, 1020 Main Campus Dr., Room 2207
Parking: Underground parking deck immediately adjacent to the building
Map: https://trilug.org/meetings/
Video:
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/trilug/events/zmzvnqyzjbrb/

Summer is here, and soon we will begin the hurricane season. While we
wait, how about if we have two presentations for the price of One?

Summary

"On the sorry state of modern programming languages and other rants,
with some surprises" by Mark Sidell

I begin by explaining why I hate all modern programming languages,
explore alternative, and then declare that PDP-8 assembly is really
the best choice. Next, I briefly explore the PDP-8 instruction set,
but switch gears to what every programmer really wants to do -- make
lights blink. I demo blinkenlights on the raspberry pi, arduino, and
finally on a replica of a PDP-8. Of course, the only thing the
audience knows at the beginning is the title of the talk.

Bio

Mark started his career designing speech recognition hardware at a
startup in Cambridge, MA, and then at Dragon Systems when it was a
five-person company in a living room. Later he wrote the Forte Agent
Usenet newsreader, which some folks might remember. Today he does
software at Viasat, focusing mainly on the AWS cloud.

Summary

"Random Thoughts on Programming Languages" by Jack Hill

It is supposed to be random, so the summary will be up to whatever
your mind makes it be. Focus on Clojure, Go, Haskell, Rust, or Scheme.

Bio

Jack is on the Systems team at Duke University Libraries, and is
passionate about Free software, storage, and functional programming.
When not thinking about computers, he cares about Catholicism, trains,
fountain pens, amateur radio, and ultimate (frisbee).

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