So, I think I keep forgetting that MAICS is in Ohio...
I had been chatting with Brian a while back about the possibility of
the second Chicago Lisp meeting. I keep coming back to the thought
that I personally would be interested in hearing more about the kind
of stuff that Brian and Eric Berkowitz <http://cs.roosevelt.edu/eric/>
having been doing, especially since Roosevelt is in our backyard.
Would anyone else be interested in this, too?
--
Damien Kick
Finding out about this list (and this group) turned out to be a
challenge :-(
The Association of Lisp User's (ALU) web site doesn't list any
information about the "Lispers of Chicago."
However, there _is_ a Greater Chicago Autocad User's Group
(incorporating AutoLisp) at http://www.gcaug.com/ and a North Suburban
Chicago Scheme Meetup Group at http://lisp.meetup.com/41/about/ .
I've been trying to learn LISP for quite some time (started learning
during the latter days of MACLISP ;-) but never quite got over the
"hump" that comes in most learning curves. I think I'm just about there
- and finding more than ever what joy LISP can be.
My biggest complaint with LISP and LISP learning materials in particular
was this: the materials show examples of how to write programs to
compute Fibonnacci numbers, or primes, or how to write a LISP interpreter.
However, they don't show you how to write a program to (for example)
sort a file and write it back to disk - or to act as a terminal program
- or how to interact with a SQL database - or how to read from the
passwrod file. In short, anything that interacts with the outside world
is ignored by such luminaries as Winston and Horn's LISP book.
I have both the first edition (using MACLISP) and the third edition
(using Common LISP).
I look forward to becoming more proficient in LISP and to the next
meeting of the LISP Chicago group. Since any part of Chicago is some
distance for me, it matters not where - as long as I don't have to be
afraid to be there after dark ;-)
--
David Douthitt
UNIX System Administrator
Linux+, LPIC-1, RHCE
HP-UX, Unixware, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
Member: ACM, USENIX/SAGE
