Productivity decreaser

[da]

While melted_snowball is learning the very useful R statistics environment, I'm learning just enough about Piet, a graphical language whose programs look like Mondrain paintings. I foolishly volunteered to present on this topic for my local Perl Mongers group. I'd hoped I could reimplement my quilt-building program to make executable programs, but that part has fallen by the wayside. If you want to know what I present on, either show up [1], or ask me after the fact what went down, 'cause I'm sure I'm not going to have time in advance to write up proper slides.

[1] google for our town and perl, should be easy to find our website. The talk's tomorrow night at 7pm. Pizza's on the house. Beer, after, probably at McGinnis in the Plaza.

Come watch me make a fool of myself!

Comments

[chezmax]

That's so bloody weird. I can't decide whether that's nifty or totally wonky.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Yes. It is. Yes, and Yes.

[chezmax]

So, when are you going to write the first piet quine? :)

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Piet looks like much fun. Almost enough so to make me want to play with it.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

http://www.rapapaing.com/piet/ is an online IDE for it, in case that puts you over the top.

[okoshun.livejournal.com]

That has to be one of the most bizarre languages I've seen. Incredibly nifty, though. I don't think I'd have the patience to write a program in it, though.

[chezmax]

Weird. I don't recognize that building abbreviation.

That and I dislike perl. :)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Weird. I don't recognize that building abbreviation.

I sure didn't, before I interviewed.

But it's got a Games Museum!

That and I dislike perl. :)

S'arright, I dislike Java too. :)

[chezmax]

OH! That building! *grin* I know where the Games museum is (but I've never been).

Good thing I'm not coding in Java then ;)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

(but I've never been)

Not as neat as the dinosaurs, anyhow.

Heh. I'm not coding in perl at work, either. But I know where your... sympathies lie. :)

[pnijjar.livejournal.com]

Even though your meeting location is right on the front page, I kind of wish it was in your wiki as well.

Would attending this meeting hurt my reputation as a perl bigot?

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Please, feel free. I don't have much tied to you being a perl bigot, so I won't answer your specific question. ;)

It's likely to be a small meeting, judging by the pizza-list. So please come and add to the body-count.

Re: location: It wasn't terribly easy to find solely by the wiki, but there's a FAQ page there that has directions and the location (and it's reasonably linked from elsewhere on the site). But I just added the FAQ link to the wiki front page; thanks.