<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Hello chipy,</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span>I run the Strange Loop conference in St. Louis and I wanted to drop a note here in case anyone was interested. Tragically, there are no Python talks included in the schedule. I feel bad about that. Current attendees list Python as 4th of their favorite languages (<a target="_blank"
href="http://strangeloop2010.com/questions/list/46102">http://strangeloop2010.com/questions/list/46102</a>) so clearly I have screwed up big time. In my defense though, no one submitted any Python talks. Clearly you should correct that next year! Don't worry; I'll remind you. </span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">In the event that anyone is still reading, Strange Loop will however include many talks on dynamic and functional languages like Clojure, Scala, Groovy, Lua, Perl, F#, and Go. </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 13px; ">A sampler of a
few:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 13px; "><br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">- Eleanor McHugh - GoLightly: Building VM-based Language Runtimes In Go</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">- Chris Houser - Clojure's Solutions to the Expression Problem</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">- Brian Marick - Outside-in TDD in Clojure</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">- Dean Wampler - The
Seductions of Scala </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">- Dean Wampler - Scalable Concurrent Applications with Akka and Scala</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">- James Carr and Than Som - Full-Stack BDD with Scala</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">- High Wizardry in the Land of Scala - Daniel Spiewak</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">- Kyle Cordes - Lua, Tiny Embeddable Scripting that Doesn’t Suck</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span"
face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">- Matt Follett - Perl 6 - The Apocalypse</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">- Aaron Erickson - Using F# To Solve Real World Problems</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">- Paul King - Writing Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) using Groovy</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">- Josh Bloch, Bob Lee - Java Puzzlers—Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">In addition to these language talks, you can find dozens of other talks on web (HTML 5, JavaScript), scaling apps (with folks from Flickr, Twitter, and more), mobile (Android), nosql (MongoDB, Cassandra, Riak, etc) and keynotes by:</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">- Guy Steele! - How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not!</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:
13px;">- Douglas Crockford! - Heresy and Heretical Open Source: A Heretic's Perspective</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">More info: </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span>Main: <a target="_blank" href="http://strangeloop2010.com">http://strangeloop2010.com</a> </span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span>Speakers: <a target="_blank"
href="http://strangeloop2010.com/speakers">http://strangeloop2010.com/speakers</a> </span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span>Schedule: <a target="_blank" href="http://strangeloop2010.com/calendar">http://strangeloop2010.com/calendar</a> </span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span>Registration: <a target="_blank" href="https://regonline.com/strangeloop2010">https://regonline.com/strangeloop2010</a> - $190 till Sept. 24th (then $250), or $100 for students</span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font
class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">It's going to be a fantastic conference and I hope you all can make it despite the regrettable lack of Python. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Thanks,</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Alex Miller</span></font></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="position: fixed; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, 'new
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