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[chicago-lisp] Thoughts on functional and syntax free languages
by Corey Sweeney 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

I've been thinking about one of the disadvantages of using functional/syntax free languages. In particular, how normally working in a small group can be more helpfull then working alone, but often when using functional or syntax free languages, not many other people know your language. I was wondering how many other people are working in isolation in thier lisp or functional programming projects, and what we could do about it. Perhaps some kind of weekly private irc meeting, or voice over IP meeting, or something like that... A place where we could trade ideas, and review each others code? Part of this would depend on how many people are using the language at work, and how many employers are willing to have company code seen outside the company. How many other people are working in isolation? What ideas does everyone else have? Corey -- ((lambda (y) (y y)) (lambda (y) (y y)))

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Re: [chicago-lisp] Thoughts on functional and syntax free languages
by Alim Ray 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

I would like to meet... perhaps in person if anyone is downtown. Michael, we were in the same class at DePaul. My presentation/project was called Check Data. Was yours the Recipe Site? Alim >From: "Michael Leiseca" <mleiseca(a)gmail.com> >To: "Corey Sweeney" <corey.sweeney(a)gmail.com> >CC: chicago-lisp(a)common-lisp.net >Subject: Re: [chicago-lisp] Thoughts on functional and syntax free >languages >Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:02:29 -0500 > >That would be great! I just finished a small project in lisp for a >course at depaul. As I worked on that project, I wasn't sure if open >source projects in lisp that I was trying to use were actually >maintained and under active development. Generally, I couldn't find >much discussion of what people were using for lisp development. In my >case, a lot of it was web development type of stuff. It would also be >very helpful for me to have someone else's perspective on my code >seeing as how I was alone in my effort. > >--michael > >On 6/10/07, Corey Sweeney <corey.sweeney(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>I've been thinking about one of the disadvantages of using >>functional/syntax free languages. In particular, how normally working >>in a small group can be more helpfull then working alone, but often >>when using functional or syntax free languages, not many other people >>know your language. >> >>I was wondering how many other people are working in isolation in >>thier lisp or functional programming projects, and what we could do >>about it. >> >>Perhaps some kind of weekly private irc meeting, or voice over IP >>meeting, or something like that... A place where we could trade >>ideas, and review each others code? Part of this would depend on how >>many people are using the language at work, and how many employers are >>willing to have company code seen outside the company. >> >>How many other people are working in isolation? >> >>What ideas does everyone else have? >> >> >>Corey >> >>-- >>((lambda (y) (y y)) (lambda (y) (y y))) >>_______________________________________________ >>chicago-lisp site list >>chicago-lisp(a)common-lisp.net >>http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/chicago-lisp >> >_______________________________________________ >chicago-lisp site list >chicago-lisp(a)common-lisp.net >http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/chicago-lisp _________________________________________________________________ PC Magazines 2007 editors choice for best Web mailaward-winning Windows Live Hotmail. http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migrati…

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[chicago-lisp] Chicago Linux Meeting: June 16
by John Quigley 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

Folks: The Chicago GNU/Linux Group is meeting on Saturday, June 16, 2007 at 3:00pm. We'll be meeting at the Cleversafe, Inc. offices, right off the red and green lines by US Cellular Field: http://tinyurl.com/2j22sn Our presentations are set to be: * The Falcon Storage Engine (Jess Balint) * Reading and Understanding Software Licensing (Erik Rakoczy) Additionally, we'll be spending time as a group in planning for BarCamp, which is taking place next weekend, and discussing group projects being developed during our weekly code sprints. As always, beer and food are allowed: please come prepared. For further information, visit our homepage or see the meeting agenda: * http://www.chicagolug.org/ * http://www.chicagolug.org/wiki/Agenda20070616 Feel free to call or email me directly with questions or concerns. Best, John Quigley cell 312.351.3671 mail jq(a)jquigley.com home www.jquigley.com

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[chicago-lisp] Updates: website, meeting, BarCamp
by John Quigley 11 Jun '07

11 Jun '07

Folks: We've grown quiet here again, and I think we should push for another meeting. First, let me inform you that I've been working towards a website for us on my end: http://www.chicagolisp.org/ Feedback, or help in any form, would be greatly appreciated. You'll notice a big section entitled "Articles." I'd love to post articles that our community writes here. I've asked some people in my language design research group to help on this, and there's decided interest. If you've ever had an inclination to formally write on some topic about functional languages/programming (not just Lisp-specific), I'd love to host that article on our site. I'm hosting a Chicago Linux meeting at my company's place of business (Cleversafe, Inc.) this coming Saturday (June 16th at 3p). We're located within a block of the Red (Sox/35th) and Green (IIT/Bronzeville) stops, right on the IIT campus. Let's try to get a Lisp meeting going concurrently, don't you think? What we need is two people will to give a presentation on anything remotely Lisp-related. Interested? Please email the list! Also, please note that BarCamp is coming up http://www.barcampchicago.com/ I'm giving a Lisp presentation on Saturday at 1600 hours: http://www.barcampchicago.com/index.php?wiki=SaturdaysAgenda I think it would be awesome if others signed up to attend - or to speak - if at all possible. I plan on really advertising for the Lisp group, as BarCamp attracts a huge number of people interested in technology. Hope everything is well amongst you all =) Best, John Quigley

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[chicago-lisp] BARcamp Chicago 2007 June 23-24
by Jason Rexilius 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

Hi Everyone! Wanted to update you all on BARcamp and ask for some feedback. The site (http://barcampchicago.com/) has been updated with the basic info on date and location. Its June 23-24 at 1464 n milwaukee. There are talks scheduled and some events planned but I wanted to ask you all what types of things you might want to see or hear about and to look for volunteers to run some code sprints or other projects. I also wanted to ask people to sign up on the wiki as attendees. I'm a little concerned that we may run out of space even though the venue is bigger than last years. I want to get a feeling for how much need there may be for a "spill over" venue. Looking forward to seeing you all at BARcamp and drop me a line if you have any comments, questions, ideas! -jason

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[chicago-lisp] Announcing TechCoffee, Season 4
by John Melesky 02 May '07

02 May '07

Hear, ye! Hear, ye! TechCoffee is set to begin its fourth Season! TechCoffee Season 4 starts Monday, May 7th, at 6AM, and continues for ten weeks. Do you code in your off time? Do you really *want* to code in your off time, but end up engaging in debates on Slashdot instead? At TechCoffee, you get up early, and go hang out for a couple hours with other people who are coding. It's like a running club, only creative. Or a knitting bee with less chitchat. Or a hackathon that lasts only a couple hours. It's an idea that's had three successful seasons so far, and is primed to get us up and out in the morning air. WHEN: Show up at 6AM Monday morning (May 7th), and every monday morning after that, till July 9th. WHERE: The Caribou Coffee located at 200 N LaSalle (the corner of LaSalle and Lake), easily accessible from all L lines. For more details (including maps and such), hit http://techcoffee.com/ Ten weeks is how long we last. One commit a week is all we ask. -johnnnnnnnnn

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[chicago-lisp] Chicago GNU/Linux Meeting: May 5
by John Quigley 02 May '07

02 May '07

Folks: The Chicago GNU/Linux Group is meeting on Cinco de Mayo, Saturday, May 5th, 2007 at 3:00pm. As a part of our Chicago Open Source Tour, we'll be meeting at the Cleversafe, Inc. offices, right off the red and green lines by US Cellular Field: http://tinyurl.com/2j22sn Our presentations are set to be: * Programming with Lua (Tristan Sloughter) * Ruby on Rails (Evan Farrar) * Intro To Unicode (Clyde Forrester) We'll be celebrating Cinco de Mayo as a group with a soccer game before the meeting, at 1p, and a BBQ with drinks at a nearby house afterwards, around 6p. This is a community thing, and we'd love to see some new faces, so please come on out! Here is a map that plots out where we'll be: http://www.jquigley.com/tmp/cinco-de-mayo-directions.jpg For further information, please visit our website: http://www.chicagolug.org/ Also, feel free to call or email me directly with questions or concerns. Regards, John Quigley web: http://www.jquigley.com/ cell: 312.351.3671 mail: jq(a)jquigley.com

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[chicago-lisp] TFP 2007: Last Call for Participation
by TFP 2007 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

Dear Colleagues, The deadline to register for TFP 2007 is quickly approaching. You may register at: http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/registration.html . Also, please be advised that the deadline to make hotel reservations at the guaranteed rate for TFP 2007 participants is also quickly approaching. Hotel information can be found at: http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/accomodations.html . You may browse the program and schedule for TFP 2007 at: http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/schedule.html . We look forward to seeing you in NYC!!! Cheers, Marco ************************************************************************************ Dr. Marco T. Morazan TFP 2007 Program Committee Chair http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/

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[chicago-lisp] Chicago Linux and Lisp Groups Meeting
by John Quigley 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

Everyone: This is to notify you that the Chicago Linux and Lisp groups will be meeting this coming Saturday, February 24, 2007, at our standard location, The Chicago Institute of Design. Presentation topics for the Linux track: * The Io Programming Language (John Quigley) * AJAX Generation Using Perl (Michael Stemle) * An Introduction to LaTex (Tristan Sloughter) There is currently no set agenda for the Lisp group. If you are interested in helping bootstrap Chicago Lisp, please come! Further information can be found online: * http://www.chicagolug.org/ * http://www.chicagolisp.org/ We look forward to seeing you all there. Any questions or comments can be directed towards me. - John Quigley email: jquigley(a)jquigley.com phone: 312.351.3671

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[chicago-lisp] TFP 2007: Registration and Program
by TFP 2007 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

Dear Colleagues, You may now resgister for TFP 2007! TFP 2007 will be held April 2-4, 2007 in New York City, USA. Our invited speaker is John McCarthy, Stanford University. Further details can be found at our homepage: http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/ . You may register at: http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/registration.html . The registration deadline is March 2, 2007 (11:59 p.m. EST). Accomodations information may be found at: http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/accomodations.html . We kindly remind you that the deadline to make a hotel reservation at the guaranteed rates offered to TFP 2007 participants is also quickly approaching. We are proud to announce our program of accepted talks: Unifying Hybrid Types and Contracts Jessica Gronski and Cormac Flanagan A Dual Semantics for the Data Description Calculus Yitzhak Mandelbaum, Kathleen Fisher, and David Walker A Metalanguage for Structural Operational Semantics Matthew Lakin and Andrew Pitts An Arrow Based Semantics for Interactive Applications Peter Achten, Marko van Eekelen, Maarten de Mol, and Rinus Plasmeijer Dependent Types: Easy as Pie Dimitrios Vytiniotis and Stephanie Weirich Constructing Correct Circuits -- Hardware Modelling with Dependent Types Edwin Brady, James McKinna, and Kevin Hammond Why Would Extensible Dependent Types Matter Pablo Nogueira and Bruno Oliveira Bytecode Verification for Haskell Robert Dockins and Samuel Z. Guyer UnreadTVar: Extending Haskell Software Transactional Memory for Performance Nehir Sonmez, Cristian Perfumo, Srdjan Stipic, Adrian Cristal, Osman S. Unsal, and Mateo Valero A New Functional Implementation of Grover's Fast Search Algorithm Justin Stallard and Murray Gross An Inference Algorithm for Guaranteeing Safe Destruction Manuel Montenegro, Ricardo Peña, and Clara Segura Hierarchical Master/Worker Skeletons Jost Berthold, Mischa Dieterle, Rita Loogen, and Steffen Priebe Property Directed Generation of First-Order Test Data Fredrik Lindblad Refactoring for Comprehension Gustavo Villavicencio Towards a Box Calculus for Hume Gudmund Grov and Greg Michaelson Scaled Regression: A Refinement of Primitive Recursion Daniel Leivant Equality-Based Uniqueness Typing Edsko de Vries, Rinus Plasmeijer, and David Abrahamson Lightweight Static Resources: Sexy Types for Embedded and Systems Programming Oleg Kiselyov and Chung-chieh Shan Space-Efficient Gradual Typing David Herman, Aaron Tomb, and Cormac Flanagan Use-Based Reference of Polymorphism Dave King and John Hannan Designing a Generic Graph Library Using ML Functors Sylvain Conchon, Jean-Christophe Filliatre, and Julien Signoles The SCIence Joint Research Activity Kevin Hammond, Dana Petcu, Phil Trinder, Abdallah Al Zain, Steve Linton, and Greg Michaelson Generic and Index Programming Jeremy Gibbons, Meng Wang, and Bruno C d. S. Oliveira The AHA Project Marko van Eekelen, Olha Shkaravska, Ron van Kesteren, Bart Jacobs, Sjaak Smetsers, and Erik Poll Studying Helium Program Bahaviour with the Neon Library Jurriaan Hage and Peter van Keeken Design and Implementation of JFP Hao Xu Hop Client-Side Compilation Florian Loitsch Adaptive High-Level Scheduling in a Generic Parallel Runtime Environment Jost Berthold, Abyd Al-Zain, and Hans-Wolfgang Loidl Bundles Pack Tighter than Lists Francisco Lopez-Fraguas, Juan Rodriguez-Hortala, and Jaime Sanchez-Hernandez Model-Based Testing of Thin-Client Web Applications and Navigation Input Pieter Koopman, Peter Achten, and Rinus Plasmeijer We look forward to seeing you at TFP 2007! Cheers, Marco ************************************************************************************ Dr. Marco T. Morazan TFP 2007 Program Committee Chair http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/

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