September Meeting Reminder - 09/20/95 - Perl

[guybz at world.std.com (Guy W Bzibziak)]

Meeting Topic: An Introduction to Perl -- Presented by Spider Boardman.

Perl [Practical Extraction & Reporting Language] or [Pathologically
Eclectic Rubbish Lister] is an powerful scripting language used primarily
on Unix and Unix like systems (though it has been ported to other
platforms like the Macintosh, OS/2 & MS-DOS). It can be used for
manipulating data, text, files and processes. Perl can be used for 
automating system administration tasks as well as program development.

Depending on the task to be done, it can be easier to use Perl than a C
program or a shell script. Using Perl can also help in learning the C
language, structured programming and how how UN*X works. 

For those of us coming from the DOS view of things, Perl has been called 
"the BASIC of UN*X"! Find out how this is only partly true, because Perl 
is a much more powerful tool on a better OS :-)

Spider Boardman is an experienced Unix Software engineer at Digital
Equipment Corporation in Nashua, NH. He is currently responsible for Unix
kernel support for Internet Communications. 


Who:    Boston Computer Society Linux/Unix User's Group
Date:   20 September 1995, Wednesday
Time:   7:00 pm.
Place:  MIT, Building 16, Room 134 (Dorrance Bldg)
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How to get there:
        By Car: Ames Street runs between 414 Main Street and 130
        Memorial Drive. Near M.I.T. Coop & Legal Seafood.

        By MBTA: Take the Red Line to Kendall Square. Walk past MIT Coop
        & Legal Seafood, turn left onto Ames St., walking towards the
        Charles River. Building 66 [25 Ames St.] will be on your right
        near the bend in the road (the building is triangular or wedge shaped
        when you're standing in front of it). 

>>>>	Go in to Building 66, walk past where we had our old meeting
>>>>	room, and follow the corridor (don't worry, there WILL be signs
>>>>	pointing the way!)

Linux is a UNIX-like operating system built around POSIX standards.  From
its inception less than four years ago, it was developed over the
Internet by a group of people who (for the most part) have never seen
each other, and now runs on an (estimated) 1,000,000 computer systems. 
The operating system (and the source code for it) is free to anyone who
wants it.  This is probably the largest development project ever
accomplished using the Internet. 

	For more information on this talk, please see the URL:

>>>>  http://www.bcs.org/bcs/Groups/linux/linux.html

	or call the BCS Waltham Office at (617)290-5700.
 
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