[Chicago] August Meeting Talk Proposal

[Joshua Herman]

I'm already scared of this talk so lets do it ! (Poor joke i know) +1
On Jul 28, 2012, at 11:06 AM, Scott Stephens <stephens.js at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I recently starting doing some work on an open source project that might be an interesting topic for the joint ALT.NET meeting.  It's a programming language called Boo.  In brief, it's a .NET language with python-inspired syntax supporting the following groovy features:
>     * Static typing with type inference
>     * Optional duck typing
>     * Many meta-programming facilities, including an extensible compiler infrastructure
>     * A nice interactive console, an interpreter, AND a traditional compiler 
> 
> If there's interest, I'm happy to give a 5-15 minute talk (whatever works for the schedule).
> 
> This is probably more of a .NET topic of tangential interest to python folks rather than the other way around, so maybe I should be pitching this to the ALT.NET folks, but I was encouraged to pitch the idea by a ChiPy member, so I'm starting here.
> 
> If you'd like to learn more about Boo, check out http://boo.codehaus.org/.  I'll warn you that the website sucks; we're in the process of transitioning to a github wiki (source already hosted on github).
> 
> -- Scott
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