MadMongers

Mithun Ayachit will be giving a talk on his use of Perl at American Family. 

This discussion will include an overview of the basics and the intermediates, as well as introduction to more advanced and possibly esoteric concepts.  We'll then do an interactive workshop for various types of fun problems that could be solved with regular expressions (bring your computer).  Do you have an example that you've solved that you thought was particularly interesting, or maybe one that you didn't solve just yet?  If so, bring it along, or email it to me in advance if you want at alanvoss at hotmail dot com.

After getting the scary terms like "lexing" and "abstract syntax tree" out
of the way, segway into a comparison of Perl parsing strategies for a
simple Lisp-like language.  The presenter will make every attempt to
pretend to be a tenured professor of Computer Science, though he won't be
fooling anyone by the end.