Re: Lua Workshop 2015

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 18/08/2015 09:02, Marc Balmer wrote:
> Am 18.08.15 um 01:35 schrieb Lorenzo Donati:
> > On 05/05/2015 12:13, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> > > The Lua Workshop 2015 will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, on October
> > > 15-16,
> > > courtesy of King. There is a web page for the Workshop at
> >
> > For a moment I thought it was "The King" of Sweden!
> > Too good to be true to be recognized at such an high level for we poor
> > SW developer! We don't even have a Nobel prize! :-)
>
> There is the Turing Award which is widely seen as the Nobel prize in
> informatics.  FWIW, his years laureate is Prof. Michael Stonebreaker of
> PostgreSQL fame.

Yep! But, let's be honest, how many laymen know what a Turing award is? 
Probably if you went to the grocery store and told the owner you won a 
Turing award vs. you won a Nobel prize I suspect the effect would be 
remarkably different! Well, unless the owner were a former computer 
scientist. :-)


Sad truth, though :-(

> > >      http://luastockholm2015.se/
> > >
> > > A page at lua.org will be up soon at
> > >      http://www.lua.org/wshop15.html
> > >
> > > Registration is open:
> > >      http://luastockholm2015.se/#ATTEND
> > >
> > > We hope to see many of you there.
> > >
> > > --lhf, for the Lua team
> >
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > -- Lorenzo