<html><body>Plan to be there. <br>Juan<br><br><div class="reply-new-signature" unselectable="on" contenteditable="false"></div><p>-----------------------------------------</p>From: "Lan Dang via SGVLUG" <sgvlug@sgvlug.net><br>To: "SGVLUG Discussion List."<br>Cc: <br>Sent: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 22:56:01 +0000 (UTC)<br>Subject: [SGVLUG] SGVLUG meeting Jun 9th: "Survival at C: swallowing the Red Pill"<br><br> Hi all,<br>
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We are meeting this Thursday, June 9th, at OpenX Technologies (888 E. Walnut St, Pasadena, CA). This means, of course, that I need to compile a list of attendees for building security. Either RSVP on Meetup, or drop me a note. I need a first and last name or initial.<br>
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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.meetup.com/SGVTech/events/229463158/<br">http://www.meetup.com/SGVTech/events/229463158/<br>
/> NOTE: Dealing with the logistics of the June meeting has already been pretty stressful on me. I would appreciate other people stepping up to actually run the meeting, from emceeing to manning the registration desk.<br>
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Our original speaker fell through. Instead, my new hero, Dustin Laurence, will be giving a talk on the C programming language. Dustin is a long-time member of LUG and spoke at LUG and SCALE last year on "Action-Movie Crypto."<br>
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Survival at C: swallowing the Red Pill<br>
Thu, June 9th, 7-9pm at OpenX (888 E. Walnut St, Pasadena, CA)<br>
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"Many good, experienced high-level language programmers do not learn C or C++ well until they suddenly need to write an FFI extension, make an emergency patch to an existing C or C++ codebase, re-implement the bottleneck component in the application stack in a fast language, take an attractive job with a low-level programming component, or otherwise move from their comfortable language of choice and swallow the Red Pill of coding closer to the machine. If you are already a programmer, you don't need to be taught how to program, and your google-fu is strong for looking up detailed syntax. Instead, this will be a crash course in leveraging skills you learned in a high-level environment and transferring them to these low-level tools, acquiring some new skills you simply never needed before, and a building a mental picture of where the road to expert, idiomatic mastery lies. We will focus on plain C because C++ is too complex to cover well in a single talk, but much of the material will apply directly to C++. Perhaps surprisingly, some of it will even make you a better programmer in your favorite comfortable, higher-level language." <br>
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We congregate at 7pm. There will be pizza. We usually start with announcements and Linux in the News around 7:45pm. Usually, we try to leave OpenX by 9:30pm and usually end up back at Du-Pars for dessert and more talking.<br>
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Lan<br>
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