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[eurolisp] Student internship
by Thomas F. Burdick 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

If you know anybody who would be interested in this, please pass it along. thanks! The Cadence Design Systems VCAD group in Munich, Germany, is looking for a University student intern for a period of two to six months. You would be working on one of the following projects, depending on our needs and your strengths: * Project planning and scheduling software. This will be used to track our utilization of our developers, and to aid in planning for on-going and future projects. * Package configuration management software. We deliver to our customers custom configurations built out of a large number of pieces of software and other intellectual property. We are rewriting the system we use to specify, track, and build these deliveries. * Common Lisp bindings to a large C++ library. We are working on a system to automatically generate the low-level bindings, as well as designing a higher-level interface meant for direct use by application programmers. The implementation language for all of the above will most likely be Common Lisp, although lesser languages such as Java, Perl, and Tcl may play a role as well. We are looking for someone who either has experience programming in a Lisp language, or is interested in learning Lisp in a production environment, and is comfortable in several mutually unrelated programming languages (eg, C, Smalltalk, and PostScript; or Java, Prolog, and SPARC assembly language). Our environment is Unix-based (Solaris and Linux), so you should have a basic familiarity with Unix. Other things that would be nice, but are not required: some theoretical familiarity with relational databases (eg, you took a database class or read the textbook from one); Windows programming experience; Oracle experience; experience with C++, SQL, and Prolog. Virtual CAD (VCAD) is a group within Cadence providing EDA (Electronic Design Automation) related services. The internship is with the software development group within VCAD. Cadence's software products are scripted with the SKILL language, a Lisp language with two dialects: one Franz Lisp-like dialect, and one Scheme-like dialect. The VCAD software group also uses Common Lisp where appropriate. If you are interested, please contact Thomas F. Burdick (tfb(a)cadence.com) and Jim Newton (jimka(a)cadence.com) For more information about VCAD, see: http://www.cadence-europe.com/solutions/vpage.cfm?pID=1 http://www.cadence-europe.com/eEuronews/mar_05/features.html

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[eurolisp] Opinions needed...
by Pascal Costanza 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

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

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[eurolisp] Anyone..
by Luke Gorrie 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

One final attempt in the fabulously unsuccessful "anyone fancy a beer in" email series :-). Belgrade, saturday night? -Luke

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[eurolisp] Lisp work based in Cambridge, UK
by Nick Levine 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

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

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[eurolisp] [ANN] Danish lisp meeting
by Peter Mechlenborg 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.

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