Curtis Poe
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Curtis “Ovid” Poe sits on the Board of Directors for The Perl Foundation and is a senior software engineer for the BBC. He has spoken at many conferences across the US and Europe, including OSCON. He’s one of the authors of the popular “Perl Hacks” book and has published articles in the Perl Review and on perl.com. He also led the project to rewrite Perl’s venerable Test::Harness and is heavily involved in the current Perl renaissance.

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4:30pm Wednesday, 07/21/2010

Scratching the 40-Year Itch of Inheritance with Smalltalk-style Traits

Perl
Location: Portland 256

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For over 40 years, developers have argued over the proper use of inheritance. That a four decade-old code smell. We'll look at the debate, explain what the problem actually is and show how we solved it at the BBC using Smalltalk-style traits. Read more.

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