chicago-lisp April 2006

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[chicago-lisp] How alive is this group?
by Duane Searsmith 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

Hi -- I too am in the Champaign/Urbana area but could possibly come up to Chicago for a meeting if it were held on a weekend. I work at RiverGlass -- a startup that has rolled out of UIUC. We are using Lisp as a central piece of our intelligent analyst software. I work with two other "Lispers" at RiverGlass -- John Cassel and Brian Downing. They may be interested in attending meetings as well. RiverGlass has a Chicago area office that we could probably use for meetings if anyone is interested. Our office is at the TRECC facility at the DuPage airport. Duane Searsmith

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Re: [chicago-lisp] Hello
by Peter Hua 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

Jesse, SISC looks really cool. I've been getting into Scheme lately using Kawa, and the syntax is much cleaner than that of Lisp. Cheers, Peter On 3/30/06, Jesse Bouwman <jesse.bouwman(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > No meetings have taken place as far as I know. The closest thing that I > can offer is that I wrote to a few friends, some of whom receive this > list, and managed a 2-person meeting last Friday, where I demonstrated a > SISC interpreter running as an Eclipse plugin, used for AST-level Java > code generation. I'd be happy to repeat this demo some time. > > This is not exactly pertinent to 'lisp' in the sense that I've been > accustomed to see it and perhaps that the name of this list suggests--in > the guise of *CL, in any case either with CL trappings or high awareness > of technical differentalia--but more to the lisp language family and > importantly its ecology. Perhaps the charter of this list gives the > impression of too narrow a focus? Programmers that I know always have > some side project in haskell, ml, or some other. I'd like to hear from > someone who has used Haskell for a substantial project, especially one > that interfaces well with others. > > Here's a thing: it's fun to take apart a problem in Scheme--more > specifically easy to refine one into essential relationships. I often > follow by casting the result into whatever environment instigated it. > The question arises, what is a good way to embed functional code in > imperative? Include the interpreter? To use untyped cons structures, or > standard 'collection' classes? I have taken a weak path here, with Java > linked lists, occasional clone()ing, and hiding functionally-unsafe code > with visibility controls, and I'd be curious to hear other opinions. > > Regards, > Jesse Bouwman > > p.s. > > Last Friday's meeting was at 5:30 PM, at a bar at 1150 N. Damen, Chicago > IL 60622, and I don't see a reason not to make it a standing engagement, > at least until some other arrangement suggests itself? > > > > Peter Hua wrote: > > Hello, > > > > After seeing all the recent fun had by lispvan, I decided to join this > > list. Are there any upcoming meetings or events in the works? > > As a born-again Lisper, I would be curious to see what is going on in > the > > Lisp world. > > > > Thanks, > > Peter > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > chicago-lisp site list > > chicago-lisp(a)common-lisp.net > > http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/chicago-lisp > >

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[chicago-lisp] Re: SISC was: Hello
by Peter Hua 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

Absolutely. I would like to be able integrate a Lisp/Scheme with Java to leverage its powerfule abstractions. Kawa isn't a complete Scheme implementation as its support for tail recursion and continuations is minimal. I will definitely have to look more at SISC (and its implmentation :). Mike also pointed me out to the Schemeway project which is kick-ass Eclipse plug-in for Scheme that is somewhat similar to Emacs/Slime for Lisp. Cheers, Peter On 3/31/06, Jesse Bouwman <jesse.bouwman(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > I went to freenet:#scheme, asked about kawa, and was quickly steered > away from it, towards SISC. I don't think it was just provincialism, > the sisc implementation itself is clear and makes pretty enjoyable > reading, so I encourage you to take a look. It sounds, since you're > using kawa, that you have some need to talk to the Java, so maybe we can > share insights. > > Best regards, > Jesse > > Peter Hua wrote: > > Jesse, > > > > SISC looks really cool. I've been getting into Scheme lately using > Kawa, > > and the syntax is much cleaner than that of Lisp. > > > > Cheers, > > Peter > > > > On 3/30/06, Jesse Bouwman <jesse.bouwman(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > >>Hi Peter, > >> > >>No meetings have taken place as far as I know. The closest thing that I > >>can offer is that I wrote to a few friends, some of whom receive this > >>list, and managed a 2-person meeting last Friday, where I demonstrated a > >>SISC interpreter running as an Eclipse plugin, used for AST-level Java > >>code generation. I'd be happy to repeat this demo some time. > >> > >>This is not exactly pertinent to 'lisp' in the sense that I've been > >>accustomed to see it and perhaps that the name of this list suggests--in > >>the guise of *CL, in any case either with CL trappings or high awareness > >>of technical differentalia--but more to the lisp language family and > >>importantly its ecology. Perhaps the charter of this list gives the > >>impression of too narrow a focus? Programmers that I know always have > >>some side project in haskell, ml, or some other. I'd like to hear from > >>someone who has used Haskell for a substantial project, especially one > >>that interfaces well with others. > >> > >>Here's a thing: it's fun to take apart a problem in Scheme--more > >>specifically easy to refine one into essential relationships. I often > >>follow by casting the result into whatever environment instigated it. > >>The question arises, what is a good way to embed functional code in > >>imperative? Include the interpreter? To use untyped cons structures, or > >>standard 'collection' classes? I have taken a weak path here, with Java > >>linked lists, occasional clone()ing, and hiding functionally-unsafe code > >>with visibility controls, and I'd be curious to hear other opinions. > >> > >>Regards, > >>Jesse Bouwman > >> > >>p.s. > >> > >>Last Friday's meeting was at 5:30 PM, at a bar at 1150 N. Damen, Chicago > >>IL 60622, and I don't see a reason not to make it a standing engagement, > >>at least until some other arrangement suggests itself? > >> > >> > >> > >>Peter Hua wrote: > >> > >>>Hello, > >>> > >>>After seeing all the recent fun had by lispvan, I decided to join this > >>>list. Are there any upcoming meetings or events in the works? > >>>As a born-again Lisper, I would be curious to see what is going on in > >> > >>the > >> > >>>Lisp world. > >>> > >>>Thanks, > >>>Peter > >>> > >>> > >>> > > >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>> > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>chicago-lisp site list > >>>chicago-lisp(a)common-lisp.net > >>>http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/chicago-lisp > >> > >> > > > >

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chicago-lisp April 2006