Hello all,

Sorry for several months of silence. Between work and trying to sell
my house, I had no spare time.

But the good news is that Frank Lafond volunteered for a talk about
Dynamic Languages. The discussion will happen this coming Thursday.

Date and Time: Thursday 11/20/08, from 5:30pm to 7:00pm.
Location: New Mexico Mutual building on Singer Blvd NE (http://
tr.im/17c8)

Frank announcement:

"Ever since ENIAC, men have strived to find more effective ways to
communicate their intent to computers. One could reasonably argue
that we've been successful in this pursuit. One trend for allowing
more effective human-machine interaction are "dynamic languages".
First introduced by LISP in 1958, dynamic languages are now coming
into the mainstream now with scripting languages like Perl, Python,
Ruby, Groovy and Scala.

Groovy is the language which has recently caught my eye, more for its
integration with Java than its dynamic capabilities. As I started
looking at Groovy programs, I could see how these dynamic features
added to the expressiveness and effectiveness of the language.

I'll start off our discussion with Groovy's dynamic capabilities, but
my hope is that proponents of other dynamic languages will jump in
and share their experience. It will be much more interesting as a
round table discussion than as a tutorial."


Please join us if you have any interest in Dynamic Languages.

We will also try to plan for future meetings. Should we plan for some
Ruby/Python/Squeak/... presentations?

Also, please forward that to whomever might be interested.

Regards,
Thierry Thelliez