== December2007Meeting ==

  Wed. December 12th, 6:53pm at FreeGeek -- 1731 SE 10th Ave.

=== Erlang -- The Perl of Functional Languages / POE -- The Erlang of Perl ===

Speaker: Kevin Scaldeferri

Kevin will discuss the message-passing approach to concurrent programming, using two example systems: the Erlang programming language and the POE framework for Perl.

The talk will include a brief introduction to each, then two implementations for a couple simple tasks to compare and contrast.

Presentation materials are [http://kevin.scaldeferri.com/dist/presentations/pdx_pm_poe.tar.gz here].
