[svlug] ACCU Wednesday 'Three cool things about D' Andrei Alexandrescu

[Walter Vannini]

When:      Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Topic:     Three cool things about D
Speaker:   Andrei Alexandrescu
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>

The D programming language is sometimes traditional and sometimes innovative, but mostly it's all around a cool language to code in. This talk substantiates that claim by focusing on three hot topics: program correctness, generic programming, and concurrency. No prior knowledge of  D is necessary - you'll even see "hello, world", just with an unexpected twist.

Andrei Alexandrescu coined the colloquial term "modern C++", used today to describe a collection of important C++ styles and idioms. His eponymous book on the topic, Modern C++ Design (Addison-Wesley, 2001), revolutionized C++ programming and produced a lasting influence not only on subsequent work on C++, but also on other languages and systems. Andrei's work has garnered appreciation in both industrial and academic circles through is work on C++ and on Machine Learning applied to natural language. Since 2006, Andrei has been second-in-command to Walter Bright, the D programming language inventor and initial implementer. Andrei co-designed many important features of D and authored a large part of D's standard library, as well as the recent book "The D Programming Language". Andrei holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington and a BS in Electrical Engineering from University "Politehnica" Bucharest. He works as a Research Scientist for Facebook.

Andrei has set up a Facebook RSVP page for this talk at <http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=142541435798096>

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

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