Alex Mirrlees-Black
Alex is a student at ANU, currently completing her honours in computer science. She has been a long time lover of languages, both for computers and people, and is always willing to share her passion for niche programming language features.
When she isn't dreaming of syntax trees and compiler optimisations, Alex enjoys playing the organ, board games, baking and being snobby about tea ☕.
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Session
09-13
14:50
30min
Pipe-ifying Python: The how and why of interpreter hacking
Alex Mirrlees-Black
Have you ever thought about adding a feature to the Python language itself?
If you have, or just want to learn a bit about how Python works under the hood, we will step through the story of adding a small feature to a fork of Python, learning about compilers and interpreters along the way!
Main Conference
Ballroom 3