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International Lisp Conference 2010 - Update
by Antonio Menezes Leitao 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

With the usual apologies to those who receive multiple copies of this... INTERNATIONAL LISP CONFERENCE 2010 - HIGHLIGHTS and CALL for PAPERS Important Dates: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Deadline for all submissions (FIRM): September 6, 2010 * Early registration: September 16, 2010 * Author notification: September 20, 2010 * Final paper due (in electronic form): October 5, 2010 * Conference: October 19-21, 2010 Invited Speakers: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We are proud to announce that, for the 2010 edition, we will have the following invited talks: * Lawrence Hunter Building a Mind for Life * Jans Aasman AllegroGraph and the Linked Open Data Cloud * Marc Feeley Gambit Scheme: Inside Out * Peter Seibel Common Lisp Standardization: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly * Don Syme F#: Taking Succinct, Efficient, Typed Functional Programming into the Mainstream * Lowel Hawkinson Lisp for Breakthrough Products More information about speakers and talks is available at http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2010/speakers Registration: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rates for Early Registration (before or on September 16, 2010) ALU member & ACM member $355 & ACM non member $390 & Student $150 ALU Individual Sponsors & ACM member $280 & ACM non-member $315 & Student n/a non-member of ALU & ACM member $430 & ACM non-member $465 & Student $165 Rates for Late Registration (after September 16, 2010 & Onsite) ALU member & ACM member $440 & ACM non member $485 & Student $185 ALU Individual Sponsors & ACM member $365 & ACM non-member $410 & Student n/a non-member of ALU & ACM member $515 & ACM non-member $560 & Student $200 Due to colocation, registration must be done using ILC/SPLASH'10 unified registration forms available at http://splashcon.org Please note that the registration page (page 3) has the option "SPLASH (OOPSLA/Onward!)" selected by default. If you are only planning to attend ILC, don't forget to deselect that option. Travel and Accommodation: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SouthWest Airlines offers low fares into Reno but requires booking online at www.southwest.com John Ascuaga's Nugget offers reduced rates for ILC participants. Please, visit http://splashcon.org to obtain the group code. Scope: ~~~~~~ Lisp is one of the greatest ideas from computer science and a major influence for almost all programming languages and for all sufficiently complex software applications. The International Lisp Conference is a forum for the discussion of Lisp and, in particular, the design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp dialects. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate. We invite high quality submissions in all areas involving Lisp dialects and any other languages in the Lisp family, including, but not limited to, ACL2, AutoLisp, Clojure, Common Lisp, ECMAScript, Dylan, Emacs Lisp, ISLISP, Racket, Scheme, etc. Topics may include any and all combinations of Lisp and: * Language design and implementation * Language critique * Language integration, inter-operation and deployment * Applications (especially commercial) * 'Pearls' (of wisdom) * Experience reports and case studies * Reflection, meta-object protocols, meta-programming * Domain-specific languages * Programming paradigms and environments * Parallel and distributed computing * Software evolution * Theorem proving * Scientific computing * Data mining * Semantic web We also encourage submissions about known ideas as long as they are presented in a new setting and/or in a highly elegant way. Authors concerned about the appropriateness of a topic may communicate by electronic mail with the program chair prior to submission. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library (PENDING). Papers must be written in English and submitted electronically at http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=ilc2010 in PDF or WORD format. Final submissions must not exceed 15 pages and need to use the ACM format, for which templates can be found at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Each paper should explain its contributions in both general and technical terms, identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and comparing it with previous work. Authors should strive to make their papers understandable to a broad audience. Each paper will be judged according to its significance, novelty, correctness, clarity, and elegance. The official language of the conference is English. Some further information is available at the conference web site, with more details added later. See: http://www.international-lisp-conference.org Technical Program: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Original submissions in all areas related to the conference themes are invited for the following categories. * Papers: Technical papers of up to 15 pages that describe original results or explain known ideas in new and elegant ways. * Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for demonstrations of tools, libraries, and applications. * Tutorials: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for in-depth presentations about topics of special interest for at least 90 minutes and up to 180 minutes. * Workshops: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for groups of people who intend to work on a focused topic for half a day. * Panel discussions: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for discussions about current themes. Panel discussion proposals must mention panel members who are willing to partake in a discussion. * Lightning talks: Abstracts of up to one page for talks to last for no more than 5 minutes. Depending on the technical content, each submitted paper will be classified by the program committee as either a technical paper or as an experience paper; and authors will be informed about this classification. Note that all interesting submissions are considered valuable contributions to the success of the ILC series of conferences. As in past ILC's since 2007, accepted papers in both categories will be presented at the conference, included in the proceedings, and submitted to the ACM digital library. Organizing Committee: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * General Chair: JonL White - The Ginger IceCream Factory of Palo Alto, ALU * Program Chair: Antonio Leitao - Instituto Superior Tecnico/INESC-ID * Conference Treasurer: Duane Rettig - Franz, Inc., ALU Director * Publicity Chair: Daniel Herring - ALU Director * ALU Treasurer: Rusty Johnson - TASC, Inc., ALU Director Program Committee: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Antonio Leitao - Instituto Superior Tecnico/INESC-ID, Portugal * Alex Fukunaga - University of Tokyo, Japan * Charlotte Herzeel - Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Christophe Rhodes - Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK * Didier Verna - EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, France * Duane Rettig - Franz, Inc., USA * Giuseppe Attardi - University of Pisa, Italy * Jeff Shrager - Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University, USA * Joe Marshall - Google, Inc., USA * Julian Padget - University of Bath, UK * Keith Corbett - Clozure Associates, USA * Kent Pitman - PTC, USA * Manuel Serrano - INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France * Marc Feeley - University of Montreal, Canada * Marie Beurton-Aimar University of Bordeaux 1, France * Mark Stickel - SRI International, USA * Matthias Felleisen - Northeastern University, USA * Scott McKay - ITA Software, USA Contacts: ~~~~~~~~~ * Questions: ilc10-organizing-committee at alu.org * Program Chair: ilc2010 at easychair.org For more information, see http://www.international-lisp-conference.org

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Building on Solaris 8 and other older OSes
by Raymond Toy 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

A short note on how to use the current Solaris 10 binaries to make an executable for older versions like Solaris 8. This idea can also probably be extended to older versions of OSes like, perhaps, FreeBSD. Since we distribute lisp.a which is an archive library of all of the C objects that are used to create the C runtime (almost), we have an easy way to rebuild on older OSes. Just extract the contents of lisp.a. Get the source code for exec-init.c (or create by hand since it's only 2 lines long for declaring and initializing two variables). Then just compile exec-init.c and link it with all of the other object files and the right libraries. This should give a working lisp executable. I did this on Solaris 8, and everything seems to work. I think this would also work for FreeBSD. I guess the only constraint is that the functions and macros that might have been used still exist in some compatible form in the older version. That is pretty true for Solaris 8 since we don't really do anything special for the different versions of the OS. I'm not so sure about this for FreeBSD. Ray

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CMUCL snapshot 2010-08 and 20b prerelease 1
by Raymond Toy 03 Aug '10

03 Aug '10

It's the beginning of another month, and the monthly snapshot has been tagged. However, no official snapshot (tagged snapshot-2010-08) is going to be made this month. Instead, this will be the 20b prerelease, tagged release-20b-pre1. We refer you to the release-20b release notes (which will be on the website soon). The key changes are support for localization, faster external formats, static arrays, and the inclusion of asdf2 and mk:defsys. A fair number of bugs have also been fixed, including executable images. If there are no show-stopper bugs, the 20b release is scheduled for Sept 1 or so. The only outstanding issue I'm aware of is that FreeBSD no longer has executable image support. Recent changes in the implementation should make it much easier to support (and, indeed, Solaris and Darwin now support executable images), but someont with a FreeBSD machine will have to step up and do the necessary debugging. It shouldn't be hard. Binaries will be uploaded soon. Ray

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