[Chicago] Ola Bini On the Ioke Language

[Josh Cronemeyer]

Important Update!!!

Due to a scheduling conflict with the Chicago ACM's June presentation, the
location of Ola's talk has changed.  The ACM and ThoughtWorks are joining
together for a joint presentation.
http://www.chicagoacm.org/

Here is the agenda:
*Ioke*
Speaker: Ola Bini of Thoughtworks

*Firewalls*
Speaker: Stephan V Bechtolsheim

June 10th
5:30 PM Buffet and Social Hour
6:30 PM Presentations

Roosevelt University, downtown Chicago
430 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605

Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Josh Cronemeyer <joshuacronemeyer at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Thought some of you would be interested...
>
> Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - Doors @6pm Talk @6:30
> Location - ThoughtWorks, 200 E Randolph St. 25th Floor
>
> Ioke is a new language, an experiment to see how expressive a language can
> be. It's a language for the JVM influenced by Io, Self, Smalltalk, Lisp and
> Ruby. It supports a prototype based object oriented system, is homoiconic,
> supports high level methods and macros and makes it easy to build DSLs and
> new abstractions from scratch. The presentation will first talk about the
> motivation for a new language, then talk about some of the more interesting
> features of Ioke, including the object system, the macro system and java
> integration features.
>
> RSVP Here: http://connect.thoughtworks.com/olabini/
>
> Ola Bini is a core JRuby developer and is the author of the book ‘Practical
> JRuby on Rails'. His technical experience ranges from Java, Ruby and LISP to
> several open source projects. He likes implementing languages, writing
> regular expression engines, YAML parsers and other similar things that exist
> at the border of computer science. Check out Ola's Blog.
> http://olabini.com/blog/
>
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