Larry Wall and Friends
by Derrick StoryNetwork Newsletter for 05/20/2003
Dear Readers,
Every year Larry Wall's State of the Onion is one of the most popular events at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. Larry's forwards-backwards look at Perl is as illuminating as it is entertaining.
At this year's event in Portland, Oregon (July 7-11), Larry will be speaking again, followed by five other "state of the technology" talks. I'm serious. Look at this lineup:
- Perl: State of the Onion, Larry Wall
- Python: State of the Snake, Guido van Rossum
- PHP: State of the Elephant, Shane Caraveo
- MySQL: State of the Dolphin, Monty Widenius
- Apache: State of the Feather, Greg Stein
- Linux: State of the Penguin, Theodore Ts'o
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So, during the course of one Tuesday evening, you can hear from six luminaries who are experts in six open source technologies, and never have to leave your chair.
Early bird registration for the O'Reilly Open Source Convention ends this Friday. You might want to drop by the site to learn more.
Until next week,
Derrick
Derrick Story
O'Reilly Network Technical Editor
derrick@oreilly.com
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