Conference
The ACCU conference is held annually in or near Oxford. It often attracts well-known figures within the computing community as speakers; including David Abrahams, Andrei Alexandrescu, Ross J. Anderson, James Coplien, Tom Gilb, Kevlin Henney, Andrew Koenig, Simon Peyton-Jones, Eric S. Raymond, Guido van Rossum, Greg Stein, Bjarne Stroustrup (the designer and original implementor of C++), Herb Sutter and Daveed Vandevoorde, among others.
The UK Python Conference, for the Python language, originally started out as a track at the ACCU conference.
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