February 2018 - boston-lisp - mailman3.common-lisp.net

Talk in Boston: Lisp, LLVM, Molecular Lego
by Martin Cracauer 21 Nov '18

21 Nov '18

On June 9 I will host Christian Schafmeister for a talk about "Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Molecular Metaprogramming". It is the talk he gave on the ELS2015 on London and I liked it a lot. It was one of many knockout talks on that conference. Lisp has come a long way. I am very happy Christian can give the talk locally. This event is in the Google office at Kendall Red Line station. External guests are invited. We have to do the full run with upfront registration, visitor pass and assigned Googler (aka me unless we get a lot of guests). So if you would like to come please let me know soon. If you have friends who might be interested in "Molecular Lego" please forward. The talk is about programming but the molecular part is very good. Same for general LLVM enthusiasts you might know. Planned time is June 9, 2015 12:00-13:00. You would need to be early because I can't set up Christian and get you in at the same time. PLEASE CONFIRM TIME in case there are changes. Abstract: Clasp is an implementation of Common Lisp that interoperates with C++ and uses LLVM as its backend. It is available at github.com/drmeister/clasp. The goal of Clasp is to become a performant Common Lisp that can use C++ libraries and interoperate with LLVM-based tools and languages. The first sophisticated C++ library with which Clasp interoperates is the Clang C/C++ compiler front end. Using the Clang library, Common Lisp programs can be written that parse and carry out static analysis and automatic refactoring of C/C++ code. This facility is used to automatically analyze the Clasp C++ source code and construct an interface to the Memory Pool System compacting garbage collector. The primary purpose of Clasp is to act as a performant language for scientific computing that will be used to design sophisticated new molecular devices, catalysts and therapeutic molecules based on our "Molecular Lego" technology. Clasp is a general programming language that will support many other applications. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer(a)cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/

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Boston Lisp Talks
by Faré 27 Feb '18

27 Feb '18

Dear Boston Lisp Meeting, is anyone still organizing talks? If so, I'd like to talk in March (e.g. March 15) or some subsequent month. Potential Lisp-related topics may be Gerbil Scheme, First-Class Implementations, or, for older stuff, ASDF 3.3, Lisp-Interface-Library, etc. Or then again, I could be talking about cryptocurrencies, or about Software Evolutionism. —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org For ultimately, the most visible trait of a just man is to have no desire at all to rule others, and only want to rule himself. This decides everything. In other words, the worst people will rule. — Alain

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Meeting this Thursday?
by Faré 22 Feb '18

22 Feb '18

I'll be in town. Shall we meet for dinner this Thursday? I'll be coming back next month. Is there a good day to make a presentation next month? I can talk about Common Lisp's ASDF, about Gerbil Scheme, about first-class implementations, about cryptocurrencies, etc. —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org (labels(({(] &rest [)(apply([ ])[))([(])(elt(]())]))(](<)( do-external-symbols(]`:cl)(push`,]`,<))(sort <`string<`:key`string))(}(} {)({`688({`875({`398()"~{~A ~}~%"(]()))}(+`,{(*)})))({`381)({`816`2/9))) ({`561()#'}`(874,948 7,6009 4862,370 10,12249)`(3,2 4,4 2,1 1,0)))

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[Final CfP] European Lisp Symposium 2018 -- Deadline extension
by Didier Verna 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

ELS'18 - 11th European Lisp Symposium Centro Cultural Cortijo de Miraflores Marbella, Málaga Spain April 16-17 2018 Sponsored by Brunner Software GmbH and EPITA http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/ *** Important: submission deadline extended to Sunday Feb. 25! The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP, Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, Hop and so on. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate. The 11th European Lisp Symposium invites high quality papers about novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical applications and educational perspectives. We also encourage submissions about known ideas as long as they are presented in a new setting and/or in a highly elegant way. Topics include but are not limited to: - Context-, aspect-, domain-oriented and generative programming - Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches - Language design and implementation - Language integration, inter-operation and deployment - Development methodologies, support and environments - Educational approaches and perspectives - Experience reports and case studies We invite submissions in the following forms: Papers: Technical papers of up to 8 pages that describe original results or explain known ideas in new and elegant ways. Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for demonstrations of tools, libraries, and applications. Tutorials: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for in-depth presentations about topics of special interest for at least 90 minutes and up to 180 minutes. The symposium will also provide slots for lightning talks, to be registered on-site every day. All submissions should be formatted following the ACM SIGS guidelines and include ACM Computing Classification System 2012 concepts and terms. Submissions should be uploaded to Easy Chair, at the following address: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=els2018 Note: to help us with the review process please indicate the type of submission by entering either "paper", "demo", or "tutorial" in the Keywords field. Important dates: - 25 Feb 2018 Submission deadline (*** extended! ***) - 19 Mar 2018 Notification of acceptance - 25 Mar 2018 Early registration deadline - 02 Apr 2018 Final papers due - 16-17 Apr 2018 Symposium Programme chair: David Cooper, Genworks Intl., USA Local chairs: Andrew Lawson, Ravenpack, Spain Programme committee: Andy Wingo, Igalia, Spain Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths University, UK Christopher Wellons Null Program Canada Irène Durand, LaBRI, Université de Bordeaux, France Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK Ludovic Courtès, Inria, France Michael Sperber, DeinProgramm, Germany Nicolas Neuss, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Olin Shivers Northwestern University USA Philipp Marek, Austria Robert Strandh, LaBRI, Université de Bordeaux, France Sacha Chua Living an Awesome Life Canada Scott McKay, Future Fuel, USA Search Keywords: #els2018, ELS 2018, ELS '18, European Lisp Symposium 2018, European Lisp Symposium '18, 10th ELS, 10th European Lisp Symposium, European Lisp Conference 2018, European Lisp Conference '18 -- Resistance is futile. You will be jazzimilated. Lisp, Jazz, Aïkido: http://www.didierverna.info

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[CfP] ELS 2018, April 16-17, Marbella, Spain
by Didier Verna 13 Feb '18

13 Feb '18

Reminder: submission deadline this sunday! ELS'18 - 11th European Lisp Symposium Centro Cultural Cortijo de Miraflores Marbella, Málaga Spain April 16-17 2018 Sponsored by Brunner Software GmbH and EPITA http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/ The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP, Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, Hop and so on. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate. The 11th European Lisp Symposium invites high quality papers about novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical applications and educational perspectives. We also encourage submissions about known ideas as long as they are presented in a new setting and/or in a highly elegant way. Topics include but are not limited to: - Context-, aspect-, domain-oriented and generative programming - Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches - Language design and implementation - Language integration, inter-operation and deployment - Development methodologies, support and environments - Educational approaches and perspectives - Experience reports and case studies We invite submissions in the following forms: Papers: Technical papers of up to 8 pages that describe original results or explain known ideas in new and elegant ways. Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for demonstrations of tools, libraries, and applications. Tutorials: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for in-depth presentations about topics of special interest for at least 90 minutes and up to 180 minutes. The symposium will also provide slots for lightning talks, to be registered on-site every day. All submissions should be formatted following the ACM SIGS guidelines and include ACM Computing Classification System 2012 concepts and terms. Submissions should be uploaded to Easy Chair, at the following address: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=els2018 Note: to help us with the review process please indicate the type of submission by entering either "paper", "demo", or "tutorial" in the Keywords field. Important dates: - 18 Feb 2018 Submission deadline - 19 Mar 2018 Notification of acceptance - 25 Mar 2018 Early registration deadline - 02 Apr 2018 Final papers due - 16-17 Apr 2018 Symposium Programme chair: David Cooper, Genworks Intl., USA Local chairs: Andrew Lawson, Ravenpack, Spain Programme committee: Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths University, UK Christopher Wellons Null Program Canada Irène Durand, LaBRI, Université de Bordeaux, France Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK Ludovic Courtès, Inria, France Michael Sperber, DeinProgramm, Germany Nicolas Neuss, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany Olin Shivers Northwestern University USA Robert Strandh, LaBRI, Université de Bordeaux, France Sacha Chua Living an Awesome Life Canada Scott McKay, Future Fuel, USA Search Keywords: #els2018, ELS 2018, ELS '18, European Lisp Symposium 2018, European Lisp Symposium '18, 10th ELS, 10th European Lisp Symposium, European Lisp Conference 2018, European Lisp Conference '18 -- Resistance is futile. You will be jazzimilated. Lisp, Jazz, Aïkido: http://www.didierverna.info

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