Hello,
Carl Shapiro, main organizer of the very successful ILC05 at Stanford last
June, will be in Europe between Christmas and early Januari. Does anyone
fancy a beer on December 26th with Calr in Amsterdam?
Kind regards,
Ernst van Waning
Hi everyone,
The deadline for workshop proposals for next year's ECOOP is
approaching soon. I am considering organizing another European Lisp
and Scheme workshop at ECOOP'06. However, the "competition" is very
strong next year. On the one hand, there will probably be a European
Common Lisp meeting again around April, and on the other hand it
seems that the International Lisp Conference '06 will also be in
Europe around September/October. An ECOOP workshop would be in the
first week of July.
So I wonder: Is the European Lisp community strong and interested
enough in three big events in one year, or would it be better to stay
focused on fewer events to make them more successful? More
concretely, would it be a better idea to skip an ECOOP workshop next
year, but only do it again in 2007 when the ILC will probably be in
the US again?
Any opinion, no matter how bold or moderate, is highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Pascal
--
Pascal Costanza, mailto:pc@p-cos.net, http://p-cos.net
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Programming Technology Lab
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium
Ravenbrook has a couple of Lisp-based consulting opportunities, and is
looking for a number of strong Lispers for medium to long term
projects.
One project is for maybe two or three years, full-time, paying about
6-7K GBP per month net of our cut. The other is less clear-cut at
present, a few months to start with, maybe more downstream, and may be
more lucrative. Team work, with Ravenbrook's usual strong emphasis on
requirements focus and evolutionary delivery.
We're in Cambridge UK, and will only consider people prepared to spend
a significant percentage of their working time in our office (at
least, say, one day per week, or one week per month). There's a small
amount of travel on both projects.
- nick
www.ravenbrook.com
+44 (0)1223 519 215
Hi
The third Danish lisp meeting will be held the 20 November 2005, at
15.00. The meeting will be held in Copenhagen, more precisely:
H.C. Ørstedsvej 70, 1. sal i kontorfællesskabet "1. cube", 1879
Frederiksberg C. Klaus Harbo will give a presentation of cl-muproc,
which hopefully will give inspiration to an interesting discussion.
See below for an abstract of the presentation.
If you are interested in joining our user group, all you have to do is
to subscribe to our mailing list. Instructions on how to do this can
be found at: http://wiki.alu.org/Denmark.
Have fun,
-- Peter Mechlenborg
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Presentation: cl-muproc -- Erlang-inspired multi-processing in Common LISP
Presenter: Klaus Harbo <klaus AT mu.dk>, Mu Aps
Date: 20 November 2005, at 15.00.
Location: København. More precisely: H.C. Ørstedsvej 70,
1. sal i kontorfællesskabet "1. cube", 1879 Frederiksberg C.
The Erlang programming language offers powerful abstractions for
creating parallel and distributed systems based on a shared-nothing,
message-passing paradigm of multi-processing.
Klaus will present cl-muproc, a Common LISP multi-processing framework
developed at Mu Aps offering a set of abstractions similar to those of
Erlang, including
- process starting & stopping
- process linking & monitoring
- message sending & receiving
- message matching
- message scheduling & process interrupts
as well as the Erlang behaviors `generic server' and `supervisor'.
The presentation will cover the core ideas in cl-muproc, an overview
of the functionality of the framework, and discussion of some of the
issues arising when implementing (some of) Erlang's ideas as an
embedded language in Common LISP. If possible, the examples will be
shown interactively in a live Common LISP environment.
The duration of the presentation is expected to be about 45-60 minutes.
I don't know if lisp job postings are on-topic on this list, but
here's what an old lisp job search agent gives me...
http://jobsearch.monster.ie/getjob.asp?JobID=34835970&WT.mc_n=MKT000125
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Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it. -- Henry Ford
LISP software application developer / LISP programmer: 12 months
consultancy in Oslo!
The consulting company Consitel AS has a client who needs an
experienced LISP application developer to develop new functions in a
large mission critical LISP based system. We are looking for
independent consultants who run their own company, and who needs an
assignment for 12 months, full time.
You must be an educated programmer, using the programming language
LISP + have som kind of experience in writing and maintaining LISP
code.
Start date: Before Xmas, 2005
Duration: 12 months, full time
Payment: Good annual salary
Place: Oslo Norway
Customer: A big company in the Content/media /IT business
Content: As a consultant develop and maintain the system together with
4 other LISP programmer. Interesting task and an experienced and
dynamic team!
Please send application + CV and mail-address + mobile telephone to:
Email: Geir.havnelid(a)consitel.no
Mob phone +47 916 41262
Managing director
Consitel AS
Norway
www.consitel.no
Forwarded from comp.lang.lisp:
> Reply to: employment(a)ravenpack.com
>
> Position: Common Lisp Developer
> Post Date: 7 October 2005
> Available: Immediately
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> Location: Marbella, Spain
>
>
> Overview:
>
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>
>
> Description:
>
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> and software engineer, with experience delivering quality software.
> You must be fluent in standard software development practices on
> current operating systems. If you are not already an expert in Common
> Lisp, you will become one. Innovative problem solving and engaging
> human interaction are key.
>
> + Design and implement maintainable software in Common Lisp based on
> loose and changing specifications, with a high degree of
> independence.
>
> + Interface to and build solutions in other languages such as Java, C,
> Unix scripts, or Visual Basic. Use the best tool for the job.
>
> + Familiarity with SQL and specifically Oracle 9i RDMBS including
> query optimization and PL/SQL is very much a plus.
>
> + Comfort in a growing, fast-paced environment with a premium on
> problem solving. Must have the flexibility to do whatever needs to
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>
> + Work successfully in a small team environment, with a willingness to
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> the reviews of others.
>
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>
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Hi everyone,
I have just released ContextL 0.1 at http://common-lisp.net/project/
closer/contextl.html
Major changes:
- There were unnecesarry &allow-other-keys declarations in some
places which didn't buy anything but removed some useful runtime
checks. (In the ContextL presentation in Munich, I was able to
say :layered-accessors instead of :layered-accessor, and this was
indeed caused by unnecessary &allow-other-keys declarations.)
- The naming convention for methods on layered functions has been
removed. Instead, one can now say define-layered-method, which is in
fact now the preferred way to define layered methods. (Thanks to
Bjoern Lindberg and Thomas F. Burdick for insisting!)
- It's now possible to say with-inactive-layers. This was one of the
most requested features at this young age of ContextL. Thanks to
Thomas F. Burdick, Peter Herth, Boern Lindberg and Jim Newton for
helping me out with finding a good name for that construct. ;)
Cheers,
Pascal
--
OOPSLA'05 tutorial on generic functions & the CLOS Metaobject Protocol
++++ see http://p-cos.net/oopsla05-tutorial.html for more details ++++
Pascal Costanza, mailto:pc@p-cos.net, http://p-cos.net
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Programming Technology Lab
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium