Damian on dead languages

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005 at 11:43pm

At perl mongers tonight Damian gave a talk on dead languages with the following examples:

An implementation of the game of life in Lisp where the field was implemented as a list that wrapped around to form a toriod;
How to calculate Pi in postscript using the Buffon’s needle technique;
Declaratively representing a finite state machine that can calculate the price of fish in C++;
How SPECS, an attempt to improve the syntax of C++, failed miserably once they decided to use ‘:=’ (colon equals) for assignments;
and finally the development of Lingua::Romana::Perligata which allows perl programs to be written in Latin.

This was the largest attendance at a perl mongers that I have ever seen with some people missing out on a seat…

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