From: "Owen Hartnett" <owen@ids.net>
Subject:   MacTechGrp meeting Oct 1
Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:35 PM



MacTechGrp Meeting Oct 1, 2003 7-9PM Room 315 Bldg E51 MIT Sloan School

 From Pascal to Java On $6 per Day

Richard Palais will be speaking. His description of his talk:

   My talk would be concerned with the general question of
porting a moderately large program from Carbon to Java in
order to make it cross-platform. I am part of a small team
that is carrying this out for my mathematical visualization
program 3D-XplorMath, and we have made reasonable progress,
so I could give a rundown on our planning and experiences
to date and show some comparisons of the mature Pascal version
with the early Java version.


Note:  The room number is officially 395, but we often move to a room 
with a better projector, which has been room 315 for some time.  So 
now I am just going to announce 315, if we're not in there, continue 
to the next rooms to the right until you find us. Alternately, I 
still leave a note on the blackboard in room  395, so just 
dereference that.

You can get a map showing building E51 at
<http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?oldstate=2&off.x=4620&off.y=1640&hi=bldg_e51&zoom.x=89&zoom.y=38>


The MacTechGrp always meets the first Wednesday of the month. 
(Sometimes I screw up the date of the notice, but it's always the 
first Wednesday)

You can get more information on the MacTechGrp (and sometimes out of date
meeting information) at http://www.codewell.com/mactechgrp

To contact the unindicted co-conspirators irresponsible for this group,
email owen@ids.net or eric@slosser.net.

*** Do you aspire to someday speak before the august MacTechGrp? Whether
you're a new programmer or an old pro, you probably have something
interesting you could tell the rest of the group.  Fear not, your lucky day
could be at hand, but slots are filling fast.  Send an email to 
eric@slosser.net with your proposed topic.***