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[eurolisp] [ANN] Common Lisp Document Repository
by Pascal Costanza 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

CDR - The Common Lisp Document Repository What? The Common Lisp Document Repository is a repository of documents that are of interest to the Common Lisp community. The most important property of a CDR document is that it will never change: if you refer to it, you can be sure that your reference will always refer to exactly the same document. Why? There have been a number of attempts to establish a standardization process for Common Lisp after it has been officially published as an ANSI standard. The ANSI standardization was very costly and very time consuming (according to http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/ msg/15248a1b11c5a603 it took nearly 10 years and at least $400K). The goal of the Common Lisp Document Repository is to be more light- weight and more efficient. We focus on one aspect of standardization: the ability to refer to a specification document in an unambiguous way. The Common Lisp Document Repository intentionally does not define a process for coming up with specifications or any other means to guarantee some level of quality of the submitted documents. Instead, we aim for a community-driven, decentralized approach to come up, discuss and finalize specifications. In this sense, we only provide the services of librarians. We hope that the Common Lisp Document Repository has the potential to prove useful in establishing new de-facto standards, and to serve as a stepping stone for more formal standardizations in the long run. Where? The Common Lisp Document Repository is hosted at http://cdr.eurolisp.org How? The Common Lisp Document Repository is a repository of printable text documents that contain material that are of interest to the Common Lisp community. For example, a CDR document can contain specifications of libraries, language extensions, example implementations, test suites, articles, etc. Each CDR document will be identified by a number. Form and possible contents of CDR documents are not prescribed, but the goal is to provide the Common Lisp community with a way to unambiguously refer to a document by way of mentioning its CDR number. The repository already contains two CDR documents: CDR 0 describes CDR itself, and CDR 1 is the CLOS Metaobject Protocol specification as published in the book "The Art of the Metaobject" by Gregor Kiczales, Jim des Rivieres and Daniel G. Bobrow. The presence of a document in the CDR repository does not imply a recommendation of any kind, but we leave the acceptance or rejection of particular documents to the community's natural selection process. We expect that some CDR documents will claim to be replacements of, or clarifications for, previous ones, but again such statements do not mean that this repository's goal is to enforce such developments. We are just librarians who want to make it possible to refer and cite documents of interest to Common Lispers. We use a light-weight process that consists of the following steps: 1. One or more authors submit a document. 2. We check that the document is a printable text document, that it is indeed about Common Lisp, and that it does not contain objectionable material (like porn, religious or political statements, etc.). 3. The document will be immediately assigned a fresh CDR number that can be used to refer to the document. We will make the document available for an initial period, after which it will be frozen and moved into final status, unless the authors decide to withdraw the document during the initial period. For more details about the process, see the CDR manual at http:// cdr.eurolisp.org The CDR editors Marc Battyani, Pascal Costanza, Arthur Lemmens, Edi Weitz

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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] Common Lisp Workshop Vienna
by Clemens Fruhwirth 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Hi folks, I will give a Common Lisp Workshop for novice Common Lisp programmers. Everyone in reasonable driving range of Vienna is invited to MetaLab - http://metalab.at Sunday, 25th of June, 18:00-20:00. Features: 45 minutes presentation of Common Lisp Basics, break, 1 hour hack your own tic-tac-toe. For the later workshop part, it is neccessary to bring your own laptop! Nothing else than an ssh client is required. The workshop is intended for programmers with experience in other languages but no experience in Lisp. The event is free. This events -- hopefully -- marks the beginning of a series of Common Lisp related events. Some bigger, some smaller. This workshop at least is bigger in terms of effort I put into, and all contributes to building an Austrian CL user group -> http://lisplab.at --- Fruhwirth Clemens - http://clemens.endorphin.org for robots: sp4mtrap(a)endorphin.org

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[eurolisp] Lisp Lab Austria
by Clemens Fruhwirth 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

I'm happy to announce: Lisp Lab Austria -- short LiLA -- is a group of loosely affiliated developers and users of Common Lisp. Knowledge exchange, organization of events, and the general promotion of the language is our goal. LiLA is open, informal, and everybody is welcome to join. LiLA focuses on Austria and its neighboring countries. However due to our affiliation with Metalab, most activities are organized in Vienna. More on http://lisplab.at.

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[eurolisp] [CfP] Lisp Workshop: Early registration deadline extended
by Pascal Costanza 24 May '06

24 May '06

The early registration deadline for ECOOP has been extended to June 2, 2006. This means that until then, you can still participate at the 3rd European Lisp Workshop for the reduced fees. There is still enough room for more participants, so please contact me if you wish to attend the workshop. Pascal -- 3rd European Lisp Workshop July 3 - Nantes, France - co-located with ECOOP 2006 http://lisp-ecoop06.bknr.net/

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[eurolisp] Call for Participation: 3rd European Lisp Workshop
by Pascal Costanza 18 May '06

18 May '06

+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 3rd European Lisp Workshop | | July 3 & 4 - Nantes, Frances - co-located with ECOOP 2006 | | Supported by ALU and Ravenbrook Limited | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Important News * The workshop has been reduced to one day and will be held on Monday, July 3. * We have accepted five papers for presentation, about an agent-based framework to simulate metabolic processes, simulation of quantum computations, Lisp tools for musicology, naturalising foreign libraries, and beating C in scientific computing applications, as well as a breakout group on Lisp Hardware revisited. * Nick Levine's keynote presentation will have the title "How to stay poor, with macros and closures." * The workshop will also contain tutorials about CLIM and/or reflection and metaprogramming in Lisp. The exact programme will be made available in the next few days at the workshop website. There is still enough room for additional participants, so please contact Pascal Costanza at pc(a)p-cos.net if you wish to participate. Note that the early registration deadline is May 23, 2006. See the news section at the workshop website at http://lisp-ecoop06.bknr.net/ 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

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[eurolisp] 2nd CFP: Workshop on Generic Programming
by Pascal Costanza 11 May '06

11 May '06

[The deadline is approaching: 23 days left.] ======================================================================== ==== SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Generic Programming 2006 Portland, Oregon, 16th September 2006 The Workshop on Generic Programming is sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN and forms part of ICFP 2006. Previous Workshops on Generic Programming have been held in Marstrand (affiliated with MPC), Ponte de Lima (affiliated with MPC), Nottingham (informal workshop), Dagstuhl (IFIP WG2.1 Working Conference), Oxford (informal workshop), and Utrecht (informal workshop). http://www.informatik.uni-bonn.de/~ralf/wgp2006.{html,pdf,ps,txt} ======================================================================== ==== Scope ----- Generic programming is about making programs more adaptable by making them more general. Generic programs often embody non-traditional kinds of polymorphism; ordinary programs are obtained from them by suitably instantiating their parameters. In contrast with normal programs, the parameters of a generic program are often quite rich in structure; for example they may be other programs, types or type constructors, class hierarchies, or even programming paradigms. Generic programming techniques have always been of interest, both to practitioners and to theoreticians, but only recently have generic programming techniques become a specific focus of research in the functional and object-oriented programming language communities. This workshop will bring together leading researchers in generic programming from around the world, and feature papers capturing the state of the art in this important emerging area. We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of o adaptive object-oriented programming, o aspect-oriented programming, o component-based programming, o generic programming, o meta-programming, o polytypic programming, o and so on. Submission details ------------------ Deadline for submission: 3rd June 2006 Notification of acceptance: 24th June 2006 Final submission due: 8th July 2006 Workshop: 16th September 2006 Authors should submit papers, in postscript or PDF format, formatted for A4 paper, to Ralf Hinze (ralf(a)informatik.uni-bonn.de) by 3rd June 2006. The length should be restricted to 12 pages in standard (two-column, 9pt) ACM. Accepted papers are published by the ACM and will additionally appear in the ACM digital library. Programme committee ------------------- Roland Backhouse University of Nottingham Pascal Costanza Vrije Universiteit Brussel Peter Dybjer Chalmers University of Technology Jeremy Gibbons University of Oxford Johan Jeuring Universiteit Utrecht Ralf Hinze (chair) Universität Bonn Karl Lieberherr Northeastern University David Musser Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rinus Plasmeijer Universiteit Nijmegen Sibylle Schupp Chalmers University of Technology Jeremy Siek Rice University Don Syme Microsoft Research ======================================================================== ====

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[eurolisp] Lisp meeting in Vicenza, Italy, 20 May 2006
by Paolo Amoroso 03 May '06

03 May '06

A Lisp meeting in Vicenza, Italy, is being tentatively planned for the morning of 20 May 2006: http://www.lisp.it/events.html Marco Baringer, of UnCommon Web fame, should give a talk. I am not among the organizers, but when I have more info, I will post any details. Paolo -- Lisp Propulsion Laboratory log - http://www.paoloamoroso.it/log

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[eurolisp] eclm 2006 in hamburg
by Christian Ruediger Bahls 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

hello, my name is christian bahls. i am a math student from rostock germany. i intend to visit the eclm 2006 next week, so i would like to ask the list, whether there is some program planed for saturday afternoon that i could join. additionaly, due to my current monetary constraints, (finishing my diploma, therefore not able to work) i am looking for cheap accommodation in hamburg. perhaps someone wants to share a room in a hotel/hostel. (anything a lot more expensive than 25 euro starts to hurt my budget) i also consider bringing a sleeping-bag and tarp(german: plane) hoping that perhaps someone would like to spare 2m^2 auf his garden. yours christian bahls ps: anybody willing to offer an internship and/or challenging work to a fresh math graduate is very welcome to drop me a message

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[eurolisp] pre-ECLM Friday
by Bulent Murtezaoglu 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Hi guys, I might be able to arrive in Hamburg on the 28th. Will anyone be there and available for hanging out Friday night? (I'll be staying here: http://www.hotel-stadt-altona.de/ ) BM

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