On 3/30/06, Jesse Bouwman <jesse.bouwman@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
>
>
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