[talk] NYC*BUG Tonight: code reading with yes.c

Peter Varga pvarga at pvrg.net
Wed Apr 5 18:31:30 EDT 2017


Thank you,Pat.  I and most likely the remote audience will appreciate .
your efforts.
On Wed, Apr 5, 2017, at 16:21, Pat McEvoy wrote:
> Yes, but I can not say for certain that I will be there for the very
> start. 
> 
> Patrick McEvoy
> 
> 
> > On Apr 5, 2017, at 1:43 PM, Peter Varga <pvarga at pvrg.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Let me ask will the meeting possibly be broadcast live?
> > 
> >> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017, at 10:03, George Rosamond wrote:
> >> Tonight at LMHQ downtown on Broadway:
> >> 
> >> Getting to yes.c, Mike Burns
> >> Wednesday, April 5, 18:45, LMHQ, 150 Broadway, 20th Floor, Manhattan
> >> Notice: Location Change
> >> 
> >> Let's read a classic: yes.c. We can look at OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
> >> GNU, Illumos, and Unix 7th ed. implementations. With the many different
> >> authors and distinct cultures we will be sure to have much to discuss
> >> and compare. Some things to think about: what are some uses for the yes
> >> command? What errors can occur, and how are they handled? How did GNU
> >> manage to make this program 88 lines long? How did Illumos get this
> >> program indented by five tabs?
> >> 
> >> The inspiration is the shared metaphors and expressions we have in
> >> natural language due to common books (e.g. Hitchhiker's Guide to the
> >> Galaxy, Romeo and Juliet) and movies (e.g. Hackers, A Christmas Carol).
> >> Come prepared for a poetry slam crossed with a book club.
> >> 
> >> Speaker Bio
> >> 
> >> Mike is an OpenBSD contributor, port maintainer, and long-time BSD user.
> >> He's new to town, having previously run the Classical Code Reading Group
> >> of Stockholm.
> >> 
> >> *****
> >> 
> >> Building Open Source Random Number Generators, Rob Seward
> >> Wednesday, May 3, 18:45, LMHQ, 150 Broadway, 20th Floor, Manhattan
> >> 
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