January 2005 - chicago-lisp@common-lisp.net

[chicago-lisp] ANN: First Chicago Lisp meeting
by Brian Mastenbrook 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

The first Chicago Lisp users group meeting / social will take place on Tuesday, February 1st at 6:00 p.m., at the Olive Garden in Schaumburg, IL. Here is a map of the location: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp? country=US&address=1925+East+Golf+Road+&city=Schaumburg&state=IL&zipcode =60173-- It is on the north side of Woodfield Mall, on the perimeter drive that surrounds the mall. It is accessible most easily from Golf road. Please send me email at chandler(a)unmutual.info to RSVP. I will make the reservation one day in advance, so email me before Monday, January 31st. This meeting will be a social event and dinner, at which time we can discuss ideas for future meetings, presentations, hack sessions, etc. -- Brian Mastenbrook bmastenb(a)cs.indiana.edu http://cs.indiana.edu/~bmastenb/

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[chicago-lisp] Chicago Lisp meeting
by Brian Mastenbrook 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

OK, now that we've got a time pinned down - Tuesday, Feb 1st at 6:00 - what about location? Does the Olive Garden in Schaumburg work for everyone? It's on the perimeter drive that surrounds Woodfield Mall, on the north side by Golf Road. Here is the map of the location: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp? country=US&address=1925+East+Golf+Road+&city=Schaumburg&state=IL&zipcode =60173 -- Brian Mastenbrook bmastenb(a)cs.indiana.edu http://cs.indiana.edu/~bmastenb/

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RE: [chicago-lisp] All quiet on the Midwestern front?
by Kick Damien-DKICK1 22 Jan '05

22 Jan '05

Brian Mastenbrook [bmastenbrook(a)comcast.net] wrote: > How does Tuesday, February 1st sound? How about Tuesday, February 1st, at 6:00 PM. I need to head back into the city by 8:00 PM, so starting a bit earlier works for me. -- Damien Kick

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RE: [chicago-lisp] All quiet on the Midwestern front?
by Kick Damien-DKICK1 22 Jan '05

22 Jan '05

Brian Mastenbrook [bmastenbrook(a)comcast.net] wrote: > I'm a coworker of Paul's too. :-) Very much so, it would seem <smile>... > There's no shortage of good restaurants between the main campus and > Arlington Heights. Since we clearly need a first suggestion, I'm > going to start by suggesting Olive Garden. The only one I know of is > by Woodfield mall, but I'm sure there are others. Your solution has the advantage of being first to market. > Flames? Responses? Sounds good to me. -- Damien Kick

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[chicago-lisp] Re: Chicago Computing Events
by Ed Summers 22 Jan '05

22 Jan '05

> I posted a link to the Chicago Lisp cliki site to > http://chicomp.multiply.org, a calendar/wiki for Chicago based computing > events and organizations. If Ed Summers et al sees we've scheduled a > meeting on the mailing-list, it should show up on the events calendar > (or one of us could even put it there :). I just noticed the link to cliki, and have signed up on list (obviously) so I'll take care of posting meeting annoucements there. Sorry for the delay; and I should say it's great to see a Chicago area Lisp group start up! //Ed -- Ed Summers aim: inkdroid web: http://www.inkdroid.org O would some Power the gift to give us To see ourselves as others see us! It would from many a blunder free us, And foolish notion [Robert Burns]

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RE: [chicago-lisp] All quiet on the Midwestern front?
by Kick Damien-DKICK1 22 Jan '05

22 Jan '05

Michael Lee [lee(a)iit.edu] wrote: > Hi --- I'm a recent sign-up from the city. Could anyone briefly > describe what would be on the agenda of such a meeting, if it were > to take place? Wow, an agenda? I dunno know about all that <smile>. How about we start with some introductions, why we've subscribed to the list, etc.? I suppose that I should eventually get around to writing up my Road To Lisp <http://www.cliki.net/The%20Road%20to%20Lisp%20Survey>, eventually. Basically, I'm hoping that Chicago Lisp will be a chance to not be the only person I know, aside from comp.lang.lisp, interested in Lisp. I've been working for Motorola for the past eight years, developing software related to the core mobile telephony network primarily in C/C++ during that time, though I've been working on/with a test execution system written in Tcl for the past year and a half, more or less. Before that, I was an undergraduate student at Marquette University, where I was first exposed to Lisp in an "Intro to AI" class. It was the typical intro to Lisp. The list was the only data structure mentioned. It was, oddly enough, a Lisp implementation running on VAX/VMS. Probably only had an interpreter. I really liked Lisp when I first encountered it, for some reason, I actually liked all the parenthesis, but never had much of a chance to do anything with it after that one class. I was reminded of Lisp, interestingly enough, by reading things about multiple dispatch in C++ from Scott Meyers, Andrei Alexandrescu, and Bjarne Stroustrup, usually mentioning that CLOS already had builtin support for it. I also ran across some stuff on /. <http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=lisp> <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=slashdot+lisp>: Lisp as an Alternative to Java, Kent Pitman's interview, etc. And since then, I've read Paul Graham's _ANSI Common Lisp_, CLTL2, _Object Oriented Programming in Common Lisp_, and I'm still working through PAIP and AMOP. All of this reading is all well and good but <pause> well, it's just reading. I wish I had an excuse to use Lisp in anger. I've been sneaking it into silly little utilities; I don't always reach for Perl anymore. I have aikido lessons in the evenings and I don't sit in my apartment enough on the weekends to have a lot of time to code for fun. I'm looking for other avenues. What are other people working on? Is anyone using any of this stuff in anger? I'm actually quite interested to hear a bit more from Paul Dietz, as he is also a Motorola employee. What about jobs in the Chicago area that might involve Lisp? Personally, I don't have any idea what an agenda for the first Chicago Lisp meeting should look like but these are some of the general topics of interest to me. Actually, I live in Chicago (Wicker Park) but I work in Arlington Heights; I don't really often make it out to the suburbs on the weekends. What about everybody else? -- Damien Kick

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RE: [chicago-lisp] All quiet on the Midwestern front?
by Kick Damien-DKICK1 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

Paul and Brian, as you're currently the only two to have responded but the more the merrier, if I'm remembering correctly from the archives, you both find yourself in the NW suburbs? Would either of you be interested in getting together sometime in the first half of February? -- Damien Kick -----Original Message----- From: Brian Mastenbrook [mailto:bmastenbrook@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, 19 January, 2005 19:12 To: Kick Damien-DKICK1 Cc: chicago-lisp(a)common-lisp.net Subject: Re: [chicago-lisp] All quiet on the Midwestern front? On Jan 19, 2005, at 12:04 PM, Kick Damien-DKICK1 wrote: > From the archives of this list, it would seem that things have been > pretty quiet. There was some discussion about whether or not people > should meet but nothing about whether or not anyone actually met. > Have there been any gatherings? Nope. I'm still interested but am not very good at planning anything. I think Paul Dietz had some ideas about a first meet / dinner. Perhaps he should come up with a suggestion? Even something where not everybody can attend would be a decent way of getting something started (as opposed to nothing!) -- Brian Mastenbrook bmastenb(a)cs.indiana.edu http://cs.indiana.edu/~bmastenb/

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[chicago-lisp] All quiet on the Midwestern front?
by Kick Damien-DKICK1 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

>From the archives of this list, it would seem that things have been pretty quiet. There was some discussion about whether or not people should meet but nothing about whether or not anyone actually met. Have there been any gatherings? -- Damien Kick

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[chicago-lisp] Chicago Computing Events
by Matthew D. Swank 09 Jan '05

09 Jan '05

I posted a link to the Chicago Lisp cliki site to http://chicomp.multiply.org, a calendar/wiki for Chicago based computing events and organizations. If Ed Summers et al sees we've scheduled a meeting on the mailing-list, it should show up on the events calendar (or one of us could even put it there :). Matt

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