[svlug] ACCU meeting tonight

[Walter Vannini]

Feel free to forward this notice to anyone who is interested.

When:      Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Topic:     Closures for Java
Speaker:   Neal Gafter
Time:      7:00pm
Where:     VMware
                 3210 Porter Drive
                 Palo Alto, CA 94304
                (Please don't go to the other VMware building
                 on the same street.)
Map:       <http://tinyurl.com/3965zb>
Cost:      Free
More Info: <http://www.accu-usa.org>

We have proposed to add Closures to the Java programming language.
Closures simplify the use of APIs that rely on the use of anonymous
class instances, such as the concurrency APIs and callbacks. More
importantly, closures support control abstractions, which are APIs that
act as programmer-defined control constructs. This talk describes the
proposed language extension and its design rationale, and shows how it
will affect existing and future APIs.

Neal Gafter is a software engineer and Java evangelist at Google. He was
previously a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he
co-designed and implemented the Java language features in releases 1.4
through 5.0. Neal is coauthor of "Java Puzzlers: Traps, Pitfalls, and
Corner Cases" (Addison Wesley, 2005). He was a member of the C++
Standards Committee and led the development of C and C++ compilers at
Sun Microsystems, Microtec Research, and Texas Instruments. He holds a
Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Rochester.

Neal's blog is at <http://gafter.blogspot.com/> and his home page is at
<http://www.gafter.com/~neal/>.

Upcoming ACCU talks

September 12, 2007
Alex Martelli
"Some Python Patterns for Multitasking and Event-Driven Processing"

The ACCU meets monthly. To suggest topics and speakers
please email Walter Vannini via walterv at gbbservices.com

Walter Vannini
<http://www.accu-usa.org/>
<http://www.gbbservices.com/>