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[LispSea] update
by Daniel J Pezely 28 May '07

28 May '07

A brief update: I should be rescheduling the Lisp presentation soon. It's taken a little while for me to get back on my feet. Now, I just have to get caught-up on a few things first... In the mean time, if anyone else would like to present something, I can provide the projector and take care of the other details. Just let me know. Thanks, -Daniel

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[LispSea] postponed: Topics in Lisp programming
by Daniel J Pezely 12 May '07

12 May '07

The LispSea presentation for Wednesday will be postponed. (You don't want to catch this nasty cold/flu, trust me!) -Daniel -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Topics in Lisp programming, Wed, 5/16 Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 18:28:05 -0700 From: Daniel J Pezely <djp07(a)speakeasy.net> To: seattle(a)common-lisp.net The month of May continues a series of presentations on systems programming using ANSI Common Lisp. These are tutorial style talks for those familiar with Lisp and those curious about its possible use for systems programming, especially those from other backgrounds. * Topic: Network socket programming in Lisp * Date: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 * Time: 6:15 - 7:30 PM * Location: Capitol Hill branch of library * Cost: Free and open to the public of all ages The official announcement is posted on the wiki for the Association of Lisp Users: http://wiki.alu.org/LispSea E-mail with full details will be sent to this list approximately a day before the actual event.

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[LispSea] Topics in Lisp programming, Wed, 5/16
by Daniel J Pezely 03 May '07

03 May '07

The month of May continues a series of presentations on systems programming using ANSI Common Lisp. These are tutorial style talks for those familiar with Lisp and those curious about its possible use for systems programming, especially those from other backgrounds. * Topic: Network socket programming in Lisp * Date: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 * Time: 6:15 - 7:30 PM * Location: Capitol Hill branch of library * Cost: Free and open to the public of all ages The official announcement is posted on the wiki for the Association of Lisp Users: http://wiki.alu.org/LispSea E-mail with full details will be sent to this list approximately a day before the actual event.

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Re: [LispSea] code from April talk on WikiBooks
by Anthony Fairchild 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

On 4/25/07, Justin Voskuhl <justinv(a)google.com> wrote: > > I used to be a Teaching Assistant for an undergrad class that taught a > Scheme derivative. I'd be happy to give a talk or do small group > discussions on LISP and Why It Is Awesome. Cool. Sounds like you might be the right person for the job then. I think giving a short intro to lisp and then showing off some of the things that makes lisp awesome is a good approach. It might be a challenge to squeeze into an hour or two. A lot of the awesome features of Lisp are hard to grok for people who are used to writing C# apps every day! Anthony

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[LispSea] code from April talk on WikiBooks
by Daniel J Pezely 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Source code from the "Lisp manipulation of C structures" presentation has been contributed to WikiBooks: Start here: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Common_Lisp The section added: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Common_Lisp/Files_and_Directories/… Please feel free to annotate and make further contributions there, as that's the whole point! If you're looking for the full code used in the presentation, it's on my site: http://play.org/lispsea/c-struct/ and has been cleaned-up based upon our discussions. Thanks again to the fellow with deep knowledge of SBCL internals! (Sorry, I didn't catch your name.) -Daniel PS - the next meeting is announced on our wiki page: http://wiki.alu.org/LispSea

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[LispSea] Presentation tomorrow: Wed, 6:15 PM
by Daniel J Pezely 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

You're invited to attend a Lisp presentation tomorrow. As posted on http://wiki.alu.org/lispsea ... Topics in Lisp programming * Topic: Lisp manipulation of C structures * Presenter: Daniel Pezely * Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 * Time: 6:15 - 7:30 PM * Location: Capitol Hill branch of library * Cost: Free and open to the public of all ages This is for Lisp and non-Lisp programmers alike. Especially those who primarily use other languages may find it interesting to use Lisp for such practical/cookbook tasks. Within the scope of systems programming, there are often multiple languages being used. While there are verbose file formats for exchanging data among foreign applications, sometimes you still must deal with packed structures within "binary" files or network protocols. This is about processing and generating packed data records such as those native to C programs. Specifically, we'll have Lisp reading and writing a C or C++ struct. We'll also process Unix time values within ANSI Common Lisp, accounting for the different epochs and depending upon hardware architecture, byte order. Getting there: http://www.spl.org/?pageID=branch_open_directions&branchID=6 This meeting will take place at the Capitol Hill branch of the Seattle Public Library at Harvard Ave E and E Republican St. (This event is not sponsored by The Seattle Public Library.) Metro Bus within three blocks: 8, 9, 43, 49, 60; within eight blocks: 10, 11, 14, 15. Parking is free yet challenging on nearby streets or has mandatory "pay station" use on Broadway until 6PM, so best options may be underground garages. There's limited free parking under the Library and a larger commercial garage under QFC grocery store (formerly Fred Meyer) with entrance 1 block away on E Harrison St. Please! Please! Please silence your gear before entering the building... it's a library, after all!!! The meeting rooms are upstairs, and we'll be in the large one above the Check-out Desk. The Library and its garage close promptly at 8 PM. Conversations may continue at various coffee houses, taverns, bars and restaurants in the neighborhood. For those arriving early, there's Wi-Fi available free of charge and no shortage of things to read...

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[LispSea] presentations in Seattle: Topics in Lisp programming, Wed, 4/11
by Daniel J Pezely 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

LispSea is the Seattle local users group for Lisp language programming. April 2007 begins a series of presentations on systems programming using ANSI Common Lisp. These are tutorial style talks for those familiar with Lisp OR those curious about its possible use for systems programming, especially though from other backgrounds. The topic is "Lisp manipulation of C structures." Subsequent presentations will include "deterministic programming in Lisp" for near real-time applications. The official announcement is posted on the wiki for the Association of Lisp Users: http://wiki.alu.org/LispSea E-mail with full details will be sent to this list approximately a day before the actual event. I hope you'll attend and find these useful. * * * Through discussions last year with the original creator and early members of LispSea, this direction of presentation style meetings is intended to COMPLEMENT and EXTEND the relaxed, social environment of SeaFunc, Seattle's functional programming group. As mentioned on the wiki page linked above, you are highly encouraged to participate in SeaFunc. Thanks, -Daniel

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[LispSea] lisp jobs in seattle, wa from Indeed.com
by Daniel J Pezely 07 Jan '07

07 Jan '07

In case you don't know about indeed.com, they aggregate various job boards and will send you daily/weekly/monthly search results. While this is a Microsoft position that merely mentions Lisp, it seems significant within the context that perhaps they're looking to accommodate Lisp in the /next/ CLR. Read on... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: lisp jobs in seattle, wa from Indeed.com Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 01:33:09 -0600 (CST) From: Indeed Job Alert <alert(a)indeed.com> Reply-To: alert-support(a)indeed.com *Indeed.com* <http://www.indeed.com> Daily Job Alert What: *lisp* Where: *seattle, wa* (within 25 miles) The first 1 of 1 new jobs are displayed below. See matching results on Indeed.com since: yesterday <http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=lisp&l=seattle%2C+wa&radius=25&from=ja&fromage…> - past week <http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=lisp&l=seattle%2C+wa&radius=25&from=ja&fromage…> - all results <http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=lisp&l=seattle%2C+wa&radius=25&from=ja> Software Architect <http://www.indeed.com/rc/clk?jk=9a7423a2437aea29&cd=4u0rTfn1Oc3HyZ-itE8Shlw…> Microsoft - Redmond, WA constraints; Deep experience with execution environments such as Smalltalk, *Lisp*, or the JVM preferred. Experience with functional langauges and concurrent... From Microsoft - January 6, 3:36 PM First 1 matches shown - see results since: yesterday <http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=lisp&l=seattle%2C+wa&radius=25&from=ja&fromage…> - past week <http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=lisp&l=seattle%2C+wa&radius=25&from=ja&fromage…> - all results <http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=lisp&l=seattle%2C+wa&radius=25&from=ja> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This Daily Job Alert is brought to you by *Indeed.com* <http://www.indeed.com>. Create <http://www.indeed.com/alert> a new alert.

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[LispSea] Was there ever a Lisp for VMS on Alpha?
by Michael Hansen 09 Oct '06

09 Oct '06

I bought an AlphaServer 2100 a few months ago with the intention of eventually buying OpenGenera. (To run on DEC Unix/Tru64 of course.) I have managed to save up about 1/5th of the cost Dave Schmidt quoted me, but it will probably be six months or more before I have the rest. In the mean time, I thought I might play around with OpenVMS, the media kit for which I obtained with the machine. There seems to be at least one Scheme interpreter which will run under VMS on an Alpha, that being SCM 4e1. I will see if it builds within the next few days. I am very interested in finding a Lisp, even a pre-Common or lightweight one, which might work as well. Any ideas/leads/pointers/rumor/hearsay/innuendo? Yes, I know Google is my friend, but the signal to noise ratio was disturbingly low. Thanks, -Mike Hansen

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Fwd: Re: [LispSea] ... status update ...
by Jeff Wood 20 Aug '06

20 Aug '06

Sorry, hit reply instead of reply all. Here's a copy of my response. jd ------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Jeff Wood" <jeff(a)dark-light.com> To: "Brandon J. Van Every" <bvanevery(a)gmail.com> Cc: Subject: Re: [LispSea] ... status update ... Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:43:59 -0700 On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:10:40 -0700, Brandon J. Van Every <bvanevery(a)gmail.com> wrote: > JD wrote: >> I'm still gathering information on who I need to talk with to get >> permission to host the users group ... Our company hosts a number of >> other groups, so I don't *think* it's going to be a problem, but ... I >> just wanted to keep everybody in the loop so you know what's going on. >> >> As always, if anybody has any one has any comments or suggestions, or >> if I can provide any additional information and/or assistance, please >> let me know ... I'm always happy to help as I can. >> >> Ciao for now. > > So what happened with this? > > > Cheers, > Brandon Van Every > > _______________________________________________ > seattle mailing list > seattle(a)common-lisp.net > http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seattle I've provided a number of people with the information, I just have to do a bit of logistics to make it happen. So, I and the persons to run the meeting will have to do a bit of conversing to make sure that everybody understands the rules that my company has in place for visitors to our environment. It looks like we can start with at least one meeting, and then go from there depending on how well it's received. jd

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