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Another Meeting?
by Jonathan Godbout 20 Oct '20

20 Oct '20

Holy cow I've been busy! Are people interested in having a meeting? Can anyone give a talk? I'd much rather have a talk to start things off. I'd be willing to give a lightning talk about cl-protobufs. We can use Zoom instead of hangouts if people are more comfortable with it that, though I have no experience with it.

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Re: Another Meeting?
by Jonathan Godbout 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

I updated boston-lisp: https://common-lisp.net/project/boston-lisp/ On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 2:58 PM Arthur Smyles <atsmyles(a)verizon.net> wrote: > Thank you for the introduction Rahul! > > Besides the meetup page, we are on YouTube @ > https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv33UlfX5S4PKxozGwUY_pA > > We will be posting to YouTube bi-weekly: A new talk on the second Tuesday > of the month, and a previous talk on the second Tuesday after. > > and you can find the rest of our sites here: http://lisp.nyc/connect > > If anybody from your group would like to give a past talk that the NYC > Lisp community has missed, I'd be happy to host it. > > Arthur > arthur(a)lispnyc.org > > On 10/12/20 12:50 PM, Rahul Jain wrote: > > (Adding Arthur Smyles to the thread since he is the current organizer of > LispNYC.) > > For whatever it's worth, we are using Jitsi for LispNYC, both > presentations and social hang-outs. The presentations are also being > simulcast to YouTube. (If you'd like to drop by our talk tomorrow, the > details are at https://www.meetup.com/LispNYC/events/270506803/ > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.meetup.com/LispNYC/events/27050680…>) > > > It might also be worth considering combining the groups (or separating on > a different axis other than geographical while we are all interacting > virtually). Might also be worth having an ongoing US-East virtual Lisp > group that meets every couple months post-pandemic. > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 7:30 PM Alex Plotnick <shrike(a)netaxs.com> wrote: > >> At Fri, 09 Oct 2020 15:04:37 -0600, Jonathan Godbout said: >> >> > Are people interested in having a meeting? >> >> Yes, definitely! >> >> > Can anyone give a talk? >> >> I can, though it wouldn't strictly be about Lisp. My employer (osohq.com) >> has been developing a logic programming language (i.e., a Prolog dialect) >> focused on authorization problems, and I think both the language and its >> implementation might be of interest. We've written an embeddable >> interpreter >> in Rust that communicates via FFI to a host or application language >> such as (currently) Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Java, or Rust. It has >> some features inspired by Common Lisp (e.g., multiple dispatch), >> but mostly it's a logic language with unification & backtracking. >> Its distinguishing feature is its ability to write rules over objects >> and types from the host language; e.g., whatever models an application >> uses natively. We think this is useful in certain complex authorization >> contexts, and perhaps more broadly. >> >> I would in particular love to get feedback from a Lisp crowd on the >> language design, syntax, etc. We tried to give it an updated feel, >> but still be recognizably Prolog, and just a little Lispy. Lisp >> folks tend to have pretty high standards and strong opinions on >> all kinds of languages, so it'd be great to hear what people think. >> >> > I'd be willing to give a lightning talk about cl-protobufs. >> >> +1 >> >> > We can use Zoom instead of hangouts... >> >> +1 from me on reliability and ease of use, though I totally understand >> issues people may have with it. Jitsi's probably fine, though I have >> not ever used it. >> >> -- Alex >> >> >> >

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Greeting and Salutations
by Jonathan Godbout 11 Jun '20

11 Jun '20

Boston Lispers, I would like to set up a virtual Boston Lisp meetup as it's been a while and I've at least been doing a lot of lisp! It would be nice to see you all. How about 6/11 @ 6:11? Instead of the usual talk everyone can say something about what they're working on. Sincerely, Jon

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Fwd: Greeting and Salutations
by Jeff Read 01 Jun '20

01 Jun '20

I'm in too. On Fri, May 29, 2020, 5:25 PM Stelian Ionescu <sionescu(a)cddr.org> wrote: > > Boston Lispers, > > I would like to set up a virtual Boston Lisp meetup as it's been a while > and I've at least been doing a lot of lisp! It would be nice to see you all. > > How about 6/11 @ 6:11? > > Instead of the usual talk everyone can say something about what they're > working on. > > > Let's make that the North-East Virtual Lisp Meeting (Enterprise Edition). > I'm in. > > -- > Stelian Ionescu > >

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[CfP] 2nd Call - 2020 Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop
by Jason Hemann 19 May '20

19 May '20

Hello, Thank you for your attention, and my apologies for any duplication you receive. Please find below the Call for Papers for the *2020 Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop*. The deadline has been extended to *May 31*. Please also note that the workshop is now to be held *virtual*ly; hopefully the silver lining is more and wider participation. We look forward to your submissions. *Call for Papers*The 2020 Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop is calling for submissions. We invite high-quality papers about novel research results, lessons learned from practical experience in industrial or educational setting, and even new insights on old ideas. We welcome and encourage submissions that apply to any language that can be considered Scheme: from strict subsets of RnRS to other “Scheme” implementations, to Racket, to Lisp dialects including Clojure, Emacs Lisp, Common Lisp, to functional languages with continuations and/or macros (or extended to have them) such as Dylan, ECMAScript, Hop, Lua, Scala, Rust, etc. The elegance of the paper and the relevance of its topic to the interests of Schemers will matter more than the surface syntax of the examples used. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Interaction: program-development environments, debugging, testing, refactoring Implementation: interpreters, compilers, tools, garbage collectors, benchmarks Extension: macros, hygiene, domain-specific languages, reflection, and how such extension affects interaction. Expression: control, modularity, ad hoc and parametric polymorphism, types, aspects, ownership models, concurrency, distribution, parallelism, non-determinism, probabilism, and other programming paradigms Integration: build tools, deployment, interoperation with other languages and systems Formal semantics: Theory, analyses and transformations, partial evaluation Human Factors: Past, present and future history, evolution and sociology of the language Scheme, its standard and its dialects Education: approaches, experiences, curricula Applications: industrial uses of Scheme Scheme pearls: elegant, instructive uses of Scheme *Important dates*Submission deadline is 31 May 2020. Authors will be notified by 12 June 2020. Camera-ready versions are due 30 June 2020. All deadlines are (23:59 UTC-12), “Anywhere on Earth”. Submission Information Paper submissions must use the format acmart and its sub-format acmlarge. They must be in PDF, printable in black and white on US Letter size. Microsoft Word and LaTeX templates for this format are available at: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/ <https://jason-hemann-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1vGxf_aAa6hTH…> This format is in line with ACM conferences (such as ICFP with which we are colocated). It is recommended to use the review option when submitting a paper; this option enables line numbers for easy reference in reviews. We want to encourage all kinds of submissions, including full papers, experience reports and lightning talks. Papers and experience reports are limited to 14 pages, but we encourage submitting smaller papers. Lightning talks are limited to 192 words. Each accepted paper and report will be presented by its authors in a 25 minute slot including Q&A. Each accepted lightning talk will be presented by its authors in a 5 minute slot, followed by 5 minutes of Q&A. The size limits above exclude references and any optional appendices. There are no size limits on appendices, but the papers should stand without the need to read them, and reviewers are not required to read them. Authors are encouraged to publish any code associated to their papers under an open source license, so that reviewers may try the code and verify the claims. Proceedings will be printed as a Technical Report at the University of Michigan and uploaded to arXiv.org <https://jason-hemann-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1vGxf_aAa6hTH…> . Publication of a paper at this workshop is not intended to replace conference or journal publication, and does not preclude re-publication of a more complete or finished version of the paper at some later conference or in a journal. Sincerely, Jason Hemann, Northeastern University *Organizing Committee*Michael D. Adams (Program Co-Chair), University of Michigan Baptiste Saleil (Program Co-Chair), IBM Canada Jason Hemann (Publicity Chair), Northeastern University *Program Committee*Michael D. Adams (Program Co-Chair), University of Michigan Baptiste Saleil (Program Co-Chair), IBM Canada Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert, Université de Montréal Ryan Culpepper, Czech Technical University Kimball Germane, University of Utah Yukiyoshi Kameyama, University of Tsukuba Andy Keep, Cisco Systems, Inc Julien Pagès, Université de Montréal Alexey Radul *Steering Committee*Will Byrd, University of Alabama at Birmingham Will Clinger, The Larceny Project Marc Feeley, Université de Montréal Dan Friedman, Indiana University Olin Shivers, Northeastern University [image: beacon]

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Hey Boston Lisp
by Jonathan Godbout 01 May '20

01 May '20

Hey Everyone, I hope you're doing well and staying safe. Sorry for the long wait between messages. As Didier just said the ELS will be online, yay! How's everyone doing? Fare, how's the startup, I miss the details. Jon

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Hey Boston Lisp
by Michael Bukatin 18 Apr '20

18 Apr '20

I have been looking at Julia and its ecosystem in the last few months, and it is a very interesting experience. The language has full-strength Lisp macros, and full-strength multiple dispatch (so it is a full Lisp), while the user-facing syntax is not Lisp-like: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/metaprogramming/ So it's both a Lisp and a non-Lisp. Generally speaking, people who creat Julia are consistently trying to "eat one's cake and to have it too", along multiple dimensions. Another axis is that the language is more flexible than Python, but is as fast as C. This is achieved via a very tasteful language design (the compiler is a normal competent LLVM compiler without miracles, it does not play any special role in this combination of expressiveness and speed). I have also found Julia open-source software on github unusually readable and easy to understand (it also tends to be very compact). The reason I was looking at Julia was that I was having an unusually flexible class of machine learning problems (a class of neural machines which is based on processing complicated structured data streams, and on using "flexible tensors" with tree-shaped indices; so one can do much more with these neural machines than with traditional neural nets). Even the most flexible Python frameworks, such as PyTorch, are too rigid for this class of problems, because they are oriented towards fixed multidimensional arrays ("tensors"). In this sense, Julia ecosystem seems to have a perfect fit, the Julia Flux machine learning framework, which is specifically oriented towards maximal flexibility and away from "tensors", while still being focused on high performance: https://github.com/FluxML/Flux.jl So far I was mostly reading other people's code, and doing small-scale explorations of my own (and creating publicly available notes in the process): https://github.com/anhinga/2020-julia-drafts I think that what I am trying to do with Julia Flux should be doable single-handedly (the tools seem to be that good), but I also hope to find collaborators (a small team would be able to move really fast with this). - Mishka On Tue, 14 Apr 2020, Jonathan Godbout wrote: > Hey Everyone, > I hope you're doing well and staying safe. > Sorry for the long wait between messages. > As Didier just said the ELS will be online, yay! > > How's everyone doing? > Fare, how's the startup, I miss the details. > > Jon > > >

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[CfPart] 13th European Lisp Symposium, happening online, free of charge!
by Didier Verna 14 Apr '20

14 Apr '20

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 13th European Lisp Symposium Special Focus on Compilers In cooperation with: ACM SIGPLAN Call for participation April 27 - April 28, 2020 Sponsored by EPITA, Igalia S.L., and RavenPack ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #COVID19 important information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In the context of the current pandemic, the symposium has been turned into an online event, and will be open to anyone, free of charge! Connection instructions will be posted on the website when available. Invited Speakers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Andrew W. Keep (Cisco Systems, Inc.), on the Nanopass Framework. Daniel Kochmański (Turtleware), on ECL, the Embeddable Common Lisp. Scope ~~~~~ 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 dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, Clojure, Racket, ACL2, AutoLisp, ISLISP, Dylan, ECMAScript, SKILL and so on. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate. This year's focus is directed towards "Compilers". Programme Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ioanna M. Dimitriou H. - Igalia, Spain/Germany Local Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~ Nicolas Hafner - Shinmera, Switzerland Programme Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Andy Wingo - Igalia, Spain/France Asumu Takikawa - Igalia, Spain/USA Charlotte Herzeel - Imec, ExaScience Lab, Belgium Christophe Rhodes - Google, UK Irène Durand - Université Bordeaux 1, France Jim Newton - EPITA Research Lab, France Kent Pitman - HyperMeta, USA Leonie Dreschler-Fischer - University of Hamburg, Germany Marco Heisig - FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Mark Evenson - not.org, Austria Max Rottenkolber - Interstellar Ventures, Germany Metin Evrim Ulu - Middle East Technical University, Turkey Paulo Matos - Igalia, Spain/Germany Robert Goldman - SIFT, USA Robert Strandh - Université Bordeaux 1, France Sky Hester - consultant, USA -- Resistance is futile. You will be jazzimilated. Jazz site: http://www.didierverna.com Other sites: http://www.didierverna.info

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So how did the January boston-lisp meeting go?
by Joshua Judson Rosen 22 Feb '20

22 Feb '20

So how did the January meeting go? What was turnout like? And is there a sequel one being planned? :) -- Connect with me on the GNU social network: <https://status.hackerposse.com/rozzin> Not on the network? Ask me for an invitation to a social hub!

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[CfP] Reminder: 13rd European Lisp Symposium, April 27-28, Zürich
by Didier Verna 22 Jan '20

22 Jan '20

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 13th European Lisp Symposium Special Focus on Compilers In cooperation with: ACM SIGPLAN Call for papers April 27 - April 28, 2020 GZ Riesbach Zürich, Switzerland http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/2020 Sponsored by EPITA, Igalia S.L. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Invited Speakers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Andrew W. Keep (Cisco Systems, Inc.), on the Nanopass Framework. Daniel Kochmański (Turtleware), on ECL, the Embeddable Common Lisp. Important Dates ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Submission deadline: February 13, 2020 - Author notification: March 16, 2020 - Final papers due: April 6, 2020 - Symposium: April 27 - 28, 2020 Scope ~~~~~ 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 dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, Clojure, Racket, ACL2, AutoLisp, ISLISP, Dylan, ECMAScript, SKILL and so on. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate. The European Lisp Symposium 2020 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. This year's focus will be directed towards "Compilers". We especially invite submissions in the following areas: - Compiler techniques - Compiler passes - Compiler compilers - Showcasing of industrial or experimental compilers - Code generation - Compiler verification - Compiler optimizations - JIT compilers Contributions are also welcome in other areas, including but 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 Technical Program ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 4 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. 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 http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=els2020 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. Programme Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ioanna M. Dimitriou H. - Igalia, Spain/Germany Local Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~ Nicolas Hafner - Shinmera, Switzerland Programme Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Andy Wingo - Igalia, Spain/France Asumu Takikawa - Igalia, Spain/USA Charlotte Herzeel - Imec, ExaScience Lab, Belgium Christophe Rhodes - Google, UK Irène Durand - Université Bordeaux 1, France Jim Newton - EPITA Research Lab, France Kent Pitman - HyperMeta, USA Leonie Dreschler-Fischer - University of Hamburg, Germany Marco Heisig - FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Mark Evenson - not.org, Austria Max Rottenkolber - Interstellar Ventures, Germany Paulo Matos - Igalia, Spain/Germany Robert Goldman - SIFT, USA Robert Strandh - Université Bordeaux 1, France Sky Hester - consultant, USA -- Resistance is futile. You will be jazzimilated. Lisp, Jazz, Aïkido: http://www.didierverna.info

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