Baypiggies Meeting September 24th,2009

Symantec Vcafe Map

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

7:30 pm: General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, any first-minute announcements.

7:35 - 8:40 pm: Technical Program

Topic: Parrot VM

Speaker:  Allison Randal

LINKS:http://www.parrot.org/

The Parrot virtual machine hit 1.0 in March of this year, with a second
production release (1.4) in July. A virtual machine like no other, Parrot
targets dynamic languages like Python. It hosts a powerful suite of compiler
tools tailored to dynamic languages and a next generation regular expression
engine. This talk explores Pynie, an implementation of Python 3 on Parrot,
with a brief explanation of the overall architecture of Parrot.

8:40 - 9 pm: Mapping/Random Access

Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of topics the announcer is interested in.

Random Access follows immediately to allow follow up individually on topics of interest.