Hello, Munich Lispers!

I attended the last meeting on friday for the first time. I already had the chance to talk to some of you at the biergarten, but I would like to introduce myself to the list nonetheless.

I'm the guy who speaks German with a funny and English with a terrible accent ;-).

But seriously: I'm an ex-physicist who at some point realised that physics was not really his business and that programming is the real fun. I've been since then catching up and learning a lot of interesting CS things.

Since 2003 I'm working for an automobile maker in Munich. The job is a mix of programming and system administration, but it's unfortunately a Lisp-free zone.

My interest in Lisp began with Emacs, which I use since 1993. Probably due to some posting from Erik Naggum on one of the Emacs newsgroups, I got interested in Common Lisp and started playing with CMUCL and later SBCL.

Most of my free time currently goes into following and contributing to the GNU Emacs development. Also, I've been programming in Scheme since about one year. Because I was always fascinated by CLOS and specially the MOP, I've adapted Gregor Kiczales' Tiny-CLOS to my preferred Scheme implementation, Scheme 48. I found it amazing that one can build CLOS with a MOP just by using lambdas and lexical scope!

Oh, and I also enjoy riding my road bike a lot :-).

Well, I guess it's enough for now. I'm sure we'll have chance to talk more at future meetings.

I'm really looking forward to the next one!

Emilio

P.S.: My personal home page (not much there though): http://home.tiscali.de/emilio.lopes/

My home page at the Emacs Wiki (some personal blurb): http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmilioLopes

My bookmarks at del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us/eclig