Talk: Three cool things about D

[Ali Çehreli]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> ACCU Silicon Valley invited me to give a talk on December 8, 7:00 at 
> Symantec in Mountain View, CA.
> 
> Attendance is free and open. Hope to see some of you there!
> 
> http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=142541435798096
> 
> 
> Andrei

Here is the announcement of the talk that I just sent out:

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ACCU: Wednesday, December 8 - Andrei Alexandrescu, "Three cool things 
about D"

When:      Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Topic:     Three cool things about D
Speaker:   Andrei Alexandrescu
Time:      6:30pm doors open
           7:00pm meeting begins
Where:     Symantec
           VCAFE building
           350 Ellis Street (near E. Middlefield Road)
           Mountain View, CA 94043
Map:       <http://tinyurl.com/334rv5>
Directions: VCAFE is accessible from the semicircular courtyard between 
Symantec buildings <http://tinyurl.com/2dccgc>
Cost:      Free
More Info: <http://www.accu-usa.org>

The D programming language is sometimes traditional and sometimes 
innovative, but mostly it's all around a cool language to code in. This 
talk substantiates that claim by focusing on three hot topics: program 
correctness, generic programming, and concurrency. No prior knowledge of 
D is necessary - you'll even see "hello, world", just with an unexpected 
twist.

Andrei Alexandrescu coined the colloquial term "modern C++", used today 
to describe a collection of important C++ styles and idioms. His 
eponymous book on the topic, Modern C++ Design (Addison-Wesley, 2001), 
revolutionized C++ programming and produced a lasting influence not only 
on subsequent work on C++, but also on other languages and systems. 
Andrei's work has garnered appreciation in both industrial and academic 
circles through is work on C++ and on Machine Learning applied to 
natural language. Since 2006, Andrei has been second-in-command to 
Walter Bright, the D programming language inventor and initial 
implementer. Andrei co-designed many important features of D and 
authored a large part of D's standard library, as well as the recent 
book "The D Programming Language". Andrei holds a PhD in Computer 
Science from the University of Washington and a BS in Electrical 
Engineering from University "Politehnica" Bucharest. He works as a 
Research Scientist for Facebook.

Andrei has set up a Facebook RSVP page for this talk at 
<http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=142541435798096>

Meetings are open to the public and are free of charge.

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Ali