My apologies for late replies. Let's do October 17th.

What I lost and gained going from Lisp to OCaml

This talk will discuss my experience going from Lisp to OCaml: where
did the types help? where did they get in the way? What kind of
metaprogramming do I miss? What kind of metaprogramming is still
possible? The techniques I will use as examples will be specific to a
mostly-pure-functional programming model for distributed programming
with monotonic data structures. But the ideas at stake are more widely
applicable.

François-René Rideau is a long-time Lisper and notably rewrote
multiple times and maintained for a decade the ASDF build system for
Common Lisp. Formerly Senior Engineer at ITA Software, he also worked
at Google and Bridgewater, and is now Co-Founder and CEO of a Startup
that publishes a language for Blockchain Decentralized Applications
(DApps), Mutual Knowledge Systems < https://mukn.io/ >

—♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org
The two most common errors in this country are that our politicians are dumb
and that they mean well.  — J.R. "Bob" Dobbs


On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 10:39 PM Jonathan Godbout <jgodbou@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, we're looking at October, either 5th or 17th (but I still must find out when I'll be away so we'll have a definite date shortly).
>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 6:34 PM masataro <guicho2.71828@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Any follow up on this? (probably canceled ... rainy day)
>>
>> On 2019/08/20 15:06, Jonathan Godbout wrote:
>> > How does the end of September 26th sound for everyone?
>> > Make Thursdays around 7 the default?
>> >
>> > On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 1:28 PM Faré <fahree@gmail.com
>> > <mailto:fahree@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     Dear Jonathan and Boston Lispers,
>> >
>> >     if you're looking for speakers, I volunteer to give a variant of my
>> >     LambdaConf 2019 speech "Building Distributed Applications in OCaml",
>> >     on what I gained and what I lost by going from Lisp to OCaml.
>> >
>> >     I am available in the second halves of September and October, and
>> >     probably the first halves of November and December.
>> >
>> >     —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics•
>> >     http://fare.tunes.org
>> >     The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of
>> >     wonder. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >     On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 11:11 PM Jonathan Godbout <jgodbou@gmail.com
>> >     <mailto:jgodbou@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >      >
>> >      > 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!
>> >
>>
>> --
>> Masataro Asai
>>
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