O'Reilly European Open Source Convention - 17-20 October, 2005

Event
Evening Extravaganza

Date: Monday, 17 October 2005
Time: 19:30 - 21:00

19:30 - State of the Onion, Larry Wall, Creator of Perl
20:00 - Fun With Dead Languages, Damian Conway, Thoughtstream

Watch in mesmerized terror as Damian hacks code in five unrelated languages (none of them Perl). Along the way, you'll also learn about modern archaeological techniques, bidirectional cross- dressing, Ancient Greeks hackers, improbable romances, the real Club Med, why programmers shouldn't frequent casinos, the language of moisture vaporators, C++ mysticism, conversational Latin, state machines on steroids, feeding the dog the old-fashioned way, the shocking truth about anime, programming without variables or subroutines, the Four Voids of the Apocalypse, Microsoft's new advertising campaign, what the Romans used instead of braces, drunken stonemasons, the ancient probabilistic wisdom of bodkins, how to kill a language with a single byte, and the price of fish.