Bryce/List,
Stephen Taylor is willing to make a presentation on our first meeting (SUK1).
I would prefer to see K in action (see Stephen's comments about K).
Will we have a projector in the Pinesoft offices?
Regards, Francisco ------------------------------------------------ Francisco Jose Garau London Kapital Development Ext: 71362 -- Stent: 2649
"Stephen Taylor" sjt@5jt.com 10/03/2006 08:43
To: "Francisco Garau" fgarau@gmail.com cc: "Romilly Cocking" romilly@cocking.co.uk Subject: RE: Smalltalk, APL and Poetry
Thank you, for the compliments and the invitation: I'd love to. I first heard about Smalltalk in the August 1981 issue of Byte magazine and immediately fell in love.
I'd do as you suggest, bring some production code, and give a taste of what writing APL is like, but focus on the language-independent notions of using semantic density to collapse the communication paths of software development into a dialogue between writer and client.
How long would you want me to speak for, and to how many? Would people be clustered around a laptop, or would I be using a projector?
I've attached a paper I've submitted to XP2006, and the text of an address I gave to the K User Meeting in the City last week*. Also an earlier piece that was picked up by Java Today.
Best Stephen
* K is an APL derivative, used mostly by financial market traders, that is insanely fast and terse. Typically outperforms Oracle by 1-2 orders of magnitude, code volume 2 orders of magnitude smaller than C++; server licences start from about US$100K; object code for the interpreter occupies only 100Kb. www.kx.com
Attached: "Software development as a collaborative writing project" "I was a Teenage Software Engineer"
also: "The Experience of Being Understood: On requirements specification as a Wittgensteinian language game" http://www.5jt.com/archive/000017.html
-----Original Message----- From: Francisco Garau [mailto:fgarau@gmail.com] Sent: 10 March 2006 01:25 To: Stephen Taylor Subject: Smalltalk, APL and Poetry
Hi Stephen,
We met a couple of Tuesday's ago in the XtC club and you gave me a Vector magazine from Nov 2005. Yesterday night I read your article about Pair Programming. Very interesting and beatifully written.
I think our communities (Smalltalk and APL) have a lot in common. Maybe it is because the languages are similar. I really don't know, because I don't know APL. But I could read your article, replace APL by Smalltalk and totally agree with what you are saying.
It would be nice to see some live APL code. Would you like to come to our next meeting and give a presentation about APL and your work? (or whatever you want to talk about)
I will be a nice opportunity to start some cross fertilization amongst the old --but very innovative-- programming languages (APL, Lisp, Smalltalk, Forth).
Kind Regards, Francisco
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryce Kampjes" bryce@kampjes.demon.co.uk To: uksmalltalk@lists.squeakfoundation.org Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:04 PM Subject: A Smalltalk Day London - 8th April 2006
We're organising a Smalltalk day in London on Saturday the 8th of April. Many thanks to Pinesoft for offering the use of their office space conveniently situated beside Chancery lane tube.
Who's interested and what would people like to do? I could give my talk on Exupery. Other demo's and talks would be great.
It should be a good chance to share knowledge with other Smalltalkers so keep the 8th free and bring lap-tops if you have them.
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francisco.j.garau@jpmorgan.com writes:
Bryce/List,
Stephen Taylor is willing to make a presentation on our first meeting (SUK1).
Sounds like an interesting talk.
I would prefer to see K in action (see Stephen's comments about K).
Will we have a projector in the Pinesoft offices?
There's a projector at the Pinesoft offices. It'll do 800x600 comfortably but that might not matter if the presentation is in PowerPoint rather than in Squeak.
Bryce
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