[vox] [fwd] ACCU: Wednesday, November 14 - Robert Griesemer, "Go for C programmers"

[Bill Kendrick]

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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:35:59 -0800
From: Ali Cehreli <acehreli at gmail.com>
Subject: ACCU: Wednesday, November 14 - Robert Griesemer, "Go for C programmers"
To: Ali Cehreli <acehreli at yahoo.com>
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Reminder...

When:      Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Topic:     Go for C programmers
Speaker:   Robert Griesemer
Time:      6:30pm doors open
           7:00pm meeting begins
Where:     Symantec
           VCAFE building
           350 Ellis Street (near E. Middlefield Road)
           Mountain View, CA 94043
Map:       <http://tinyurl.com/334rv5>
Directions: VCAFE is accessible from the semicircular courtyard
between Symantec buildings <http://tinyurl.com/2dccgc>
Cost:      Free
More Info: <http://www.accu-usa.org>

Go is a general-purpose programming language developed at Google. Go's
design is influenced by the C and Pascal lineage, but instead of
providing a conglomerate of features, Go takes a fresh look at the
essential mechanisms required for modern programming tasks. As a
result, Go has evolved to a compact language of surprising power. In
this presentation we give a brief introduction to Go, slightly slanted
towards programmers with a C/C++ background, and then talk about
particularly interesting aspects of Go.

  Webpage: http://golang.org/

Robert Griesemer is a senior engineer at Google, Inc., and one of the
initial designers of the Go programming language. Prior to Go, Robert
worked on code generation for Google's V8 JavaScript engine, the
design and implementation of the domain-specific language Sawzall, the
Java HotSpot virtual machine, and the Strongtalk system. He once wrote
a vectorizing compiler for the Cray Y-MP, and an interpreter for APL.
He is a fan of things that "just work". Robert holds a Ph.D. in
computer science from ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Meetings are open to the public and are free of charge.

---- Upcoming ACCU talks -----

Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Chandler Carruth
Topic TBD on clang, a C language family frontend for LLVM

Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Jon Kalb
C++ Exception Safety

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The ACCU meets monthly. Meetings are always open to the public and are
free of charge. To suggest topics and speakers please email Walter
Vannini via walterv at gbbservices.com


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