[sf-lug] BayPIGgies meeting Thursday September 24, 2009: Parrot VM

[jim]

BayPIGgies meeting Thursday September 24, 2009: Parrot VM 


Tonight's talk is 
* Parrot VM 
by Allison Randal 


Meetings start with a Newbie Nugget, a short discussion of an 
essential Python feature, specially for those new to Python. 
Tonight's Newbie Nugget: List Comprehension 

LOCATION 
Symantec Corporation
Symantec Vcafe
350 Ellis Street
Mountain View, CA 94043
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&ei=w6i_Sfr6MZmQsQOzlv0v&hl=en&t=h&msa=0&msid=116202735295394761637.00046550c09ff3d96bff1&ll=37.397693,-122.053707&spn=0.002902,0.004828&z=18

BayPIGgies meeting information is available at 
http://baypiggies.net/new/plone



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


..... 7:35 PM to 7:45 PM ................

Newbie Nugget: List Comprehension 


..... 7:45 PM to 8:45 PM ................

Title: Parrot VM 
by Allison Randal 

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.


..... 8:45 PM to 9:20 PM  ................
Mapping and Random Access

Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of topics that 
the announcers are interested in. 

Random Access follows immediately to allow follow up individually 
on the announcements and other topics of interest.