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LOCAL: Washington DC Linux User Group meeting and Python talk
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Dec 9 01:48:18 1995
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 00:28:14 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: przemek@rrdjazz.nist.gov (Przemek Klosowski)
Subject: LOCAL: Washington DC Linux User Group meeting and Python talk
Organization: U. of Maryland/NIST
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The December meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place
on Wednesday, December 20, 1995, at 7pm, at the Lippsett auditorium
at NIH (see directions below).
This month, Guido van Rossum, who is visiting in DC from Netherlands,
will talk about the Python language. Guido invented Python as an
improvement on other scripting languages by introducing
object-oriented features. In a word, Python combines Perl 5.x's
OO approach with Tcl's extensibility.
TITLE: An Introduction to the Python Programming Language,
With a Detour to the Grail Browser
ABSTRACT:
Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented
programming language, which is considered by many a step up
from Tcl or Perl. Python's syntax is elegant and clutter-free,
and encourages short but readable programs. At the same time,
Python's class and module concepts support the construction of
large programs as well. Python has very high level data types
that also help to relieve the programmer's burden. Python is
extensible with modules written in C or C++, and comes with a
comprehensive library which includes system calls as well as
GUI interfaces. It has been ported to most Unix platforms,
Windows, and Macintosh, and best of all, it is completely free.
For more info, see http://www.python.org/.
Grail is an extensible Internet browser written in Python. It
allows downloading of Python code ("applets") to enhance the
interactivity of web pages, and can be extended with Python
modules to support new protocols, file types or HTML tags. For
more info, see http://monty.cnri.reston.va.us/grail-0.2/.
Greetings, and see you at the meeting
przemek klosowski (przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov)
Reactor Division (bldg. 235), E111
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
(301) 975 6249
PS I enclose the meeting dates for next year (1996); please
mark your calendars.
January 17
February 21
March 20
April 17
May 15
June 19
July 17
August 21
September 18
October 16
November 20
December 18
All meetings are scheduled in Lippsett auditorium of the National
Institutes of Health; see our home page,
http://dcpages.ari.net/dclinux/dclinux.html.
BIG PICTURE:
to Frederick to Baltimore & NYC
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NIH AND VICINITY
Rockville Pike
I-270 spur (Rte 355)
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Wisconsin Ave
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Cedar Lane ========= | Bldg. 10 is the huge NIH hospital
| | | complex. There is some parking
West Dr.->| | | just to the north of it, off West Dr.
| | | as well as in the underground garage.
Bldg 10 | | Lippsett auditorium is located on the
| | left side of the main entrance hall.
South Drive === |
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M Medical Center
(Red Metro Line)
Those with Mosaic/Gopher can retrieve the NIH site map via
http://www.nih.gov or gopher://gopher.nih.gov
in "NIT/Bethesda Campus Info" / "NIH maps and photos" branch
- --
przemek klosowski (przemek@nist.gov)
Reactor Division (bldg. 235), E111
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
(301) 975 6249
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