[Chicago] August Meeting Talk Proposal

[Chad Glendenin]

+1. Boo looks pretty cool, and, at first glance, it looks like it's
almost the same as Python syntactically.


On Sat, 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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