War stories: programming in the field of medieval history‎

By Tara Andrews (‎aurum‎) from London.pm, Zurich.pm
Date: Friday, 28 August 2015 09:55
Duration: 40 minutes
Target audience: Any
Language: English
Tags: best humanities manuscripts perl practices processing text

In this talk I will cover the use of Perl for some distinctly non-commercial pursuits: that is, investigating medieval history and the texts that carry that history. Next to the battles for religious supremacy and power in the Near East, I'll talk about my time writing software in a land where development stops with the demo.