Chicago Python User Group ========================= Go ChiPy! The world's most successful user group strikes again! The agenda for this month's ChiPy meeting includes a presentation by Computer Software Consultant and Contractor, Allan Spale, on Python 3000 (Py3k) official release. This is the result of over three years of work by the Python Team and is the first ever intentionally backwards incompatible Python release. The rest of the meeting will consist of short timed verbal comparisons of other programming languages to Python by some of ChiPy most notable members. All presenters will be given a short list of questions about the language features they must answer during the talk. The best presentation will be voted on at the end of the meeting. Future meetings may be dedicated to any interesting topic's found during the first ChiPy meeting of 2009. Our host for the meeting is the Roosevelt University Computer Association (RUCA). Thanks in advance for kindly hosting this event full of colorful languages and people. This *will* be our best meeting yet. Topics ------ • Py3k Official Release, the next version of the Python Programming Language - Allan Spale • The Python Language Comparison Lighting Talks: • C - Daniel Griffin • tcl/tk - tentative • Logo - Ian Bicking • Smalltalk -Ian Bicking • Groovy - David Durham • JAVA - Garrett Smith • Ruby - Frederick Polgardy • JavaScript - Frederick Polgardy • Boo - Feihong Hsu • C++ - Allan LeSage • Lua - Allan LeSage • Clojure - Cosmin Stejerean • C# - Marc Temkin When ---- Thursday, January 8th, ~7pm Location -------- Roosevelt University, Gage Building, 18 S. Michigan Ave, 5th floor About ChiPy ----------- ChiPy is a group of Chicago Python Programmers, l33t, and n00bs. Meetings are held monthly at various locations around Chicago. Also, ChiPy is a proud sponsor of many Open Source and Educational efforts in Chicago. Stay tuned to the mailing list for more info. ChiPy website: <http://chipy.org> ChiPy Mailing List: <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago> ChiPy Announcement *ONLY* Mailing List: <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chipy-announce

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