🚀 go-pugleaf

The next meeting of the Front Range UNIX Users Group will be in room 123 of
the CU Academic Computing Center building at Arapahoe and Marine Streets in
Boulder at 4:00 PM on Wednesday April 19, 1995.  Marine St intersects Arapahoe
at 38th St; the Computing Center is on the southwest corner.  The speaker for
our next meeting is Tom Christiansen and the topic is Perl 5.0.

Perl is an interpreted language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files,
extracting  information from those text files, and printing reports based on 
that information.  It's also  a good language for many system management tasks.
The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete)
rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal).  Perl5 is, essentially, a
complete rewrite of the perl source code from the ground up.  It has been 
modularized, object oriented, tweaked, trimmed, and optimized until it 
almost doesn't look like the old code.

Some of the features of Perl5 over the previous version are: Enhanced Usability,
Simplified Grammar, Lexical Scoping, Arbitrarily nested data structures, 
Modularity and Reusability, Object-oriented programming, and POSIX compliance.

Tom Christiansen is an international software consultant specializing in
Perl applications, programming, optimizations and training.  He earned an
MS degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
He serves on the USENIX Board of Directors.