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Next Meeting
by Jonathan Godbout 17 Dec '19

17 Dec '19

Official next meeting announcement. On January 9th (Thursday) we will have a meeting! Masataro and I will give talks. Please find the usually information here: https://common-lisp.net/project/boston-lisp/ Please add your name to the form: https://forms.gle/knkzze9FJswAPvMq6 Look forward to seeing you there! Jon

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Meeting
by Jonathan Godbout 15 Dec '19

15 Dec '19

It has come to my attention we are due for another meeting. This email comes with two question: Should we try this month or have one next month? I wish to compile a list of talks people would be interested in giving, please enter the talks you'd be interested in giving here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T5ukcJkvyE0lGbOP_7wk-ICy9vu3y1bpQzC… Thanks!

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[CfP] ELS 2020, 13th European Lisp Symposium, April 27-28, Zurich
by Didier Verna 06 Dec '19

06 Dec '19

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 13th European Lisp Symposium Special Focus on Compilers 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 15 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, Intel Exascience Lab, Belgium Christophe Rhodes - Google, UK Iréne 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 (more PC members to be announced) -- Resistance is futile. You will be jazzimilated. Lisp, Jazz, Aïkido: http://www.didierverna.info

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LISP Machines: Keyboards and Keybindings
by Nicholas Papadonis 29 Oct '19

29 Oct '19

I'm researching human input devices to these machine and their mapping to Zmacs and Emacs. Circulating to Emacs list as well. Does anyone have insight into the Zmacs keybindings for the Symbolics Space Cadet and/or Knight SAIL keyboards? Also any historical input on early Emacs keybindings? I am suspicious of where the Emacs mapping of Meta and Control initially appeared. For instance on the Knight SAIL (see link below), Meta is much too far for either hand to rotate to without lifting off the keyboard. I have been told that the CTRL key on this keyboard is optimally place so the hand rotates 30 degrees, exposing a row of diagonal keys which the other hand can access. Also, the RUB OUT key is more optimally placed and much easier than performing M-x delete on modern Emacs. I am also suspicious that the Emacs Meta key is really the ALT key above rubout on the Knight keyboard. This would make the Knight keyboard much more efficient in Emacs. I'm less certain for the Symbolics Space Cadet which seems less ergonomic and less minimalistic. I tried sales(a)symbolics-dks.com and have yet to receive a response. Appreciated any guidance folks may have. Also any pointers to patents that include these machines, software or keyboards. I'm not even sure what companies or grantees to search under. Images: http://nickpapadonis.com/images-share/keyb/imac-knight.png http://nickpapadonis.com/images-share/keyb/imac-symbolics-lmi.png Thanks!

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Emacs Keybindings for early LISP keyboards and modern usage?
by Nicholas Papadonis 24 Oct '19

24 Oct '19

Does anyone know the physical to functional keybindings for early LISP Machine keyboards, Symbols, Knight, Space Cadet etc featured here: http://xahlee.info/kbd/lisp_keyboards.html I did an analysis against the Space Cadet against my iMac Bluetooth keyboard. Here are some rough samples because physical mapping is not 1-1: iMac. Symbolics Space Cadet Command Left/Right Space or no key Option Left. Control Control Left. Control Fn Left Meta Option Right. Control Left Arrow Right. Control Up/Down Arrow Right Meta Caps Lock Alt Mode or Rub Out (Delete under char?) Tab Network or Tab To further summarize my inquiry, I'm wondering: o If there was any physical reason for the placement of the keys on the early LISP keyboards? Perhaps frequency of that particular input as a key in editing LISP code? o Is there any key mapping of these LISP machine keyboards to Emacs functions? (Emacs had been around at that time) o Did the Emacs functional keybindings (M-x) for instance change over time? For instance did the early LISP keyboards Meta key + x, correspond to M-x of was it different? o Has anyone created a similar physical mapping of the iMac Bluetooth keyboard with above in mind from a physical to Emacs functional perspective? I also noted that there are arrow keys above g,h,k,l. For instance, were these used to move the cursor? If so, I would argue they are better placement then modern arrow keys and/or Alt-n Alt-p, for cursor movement. I'm also suspicious that the Space Cadet ALT MODE which is close to the iMac TAB may be the original mapping to Meta functionality because it corresponds easily to the pinky figure. Finally, does someone have one of these keyboards because I would love to try one out. :) Appreciate anyone's guidance on this.

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Meeting
by Jonathan Godbout 17 Oct '19

17 Oct '19

We're in the lobby near the door, please avoid the larger mit mba line.

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Lisp Meetup
by Jonathan Godbout 17 Oct '19

17 Oct '19

Just a reminder the meetup is today at 7:00 (https://common-lisp.net/project/boston-lisp/) If your coming and haven't registered yet please do so https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8_tFCIgWzkIqfkB8z_UXXh4u0m61fkKk… Look forward to seeing you there!

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Previous and Future Meetings
by Jonathan Godbout 05 Oct '19

05 Oct '19

Thank you Masataro for your great talk Thursday. You can find a link to his paper and his Github account in the Past Meetings page: https://common-lisp.net/project/boston-lisp/past-meetings.html If you have a talk you would like to give please send a message or carrier pigeon!

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Lisp meeting title
by Guicho 271828 13 Aug '19

13 Aug '19

Dear all, As per the advice from Jeff, I asked to remove "Make...Again" from the title, yet it happened to remain on the website. I prefer not to spread it just yet on twitter. Thanks, -- Masataro Asai, Ph.D Research Staff Member IBM Research Tel: +81-44-856-9009 Mobile: +81-50-5534-1357 Website(private): http://guicho271828.github.io/

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Boston lisp meeting on 8/15/2019
by Jonathan Godbout 13 Aug '19

13 Aug '19

For all of you excited a about Masataro Asai's talk: I have updated the Boston-Lisp site to have information on the talk this Thursday. Looking forward to seeing everyone there! PS: Please contact me for registration at Google. Sincerely, Jon

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