November 2008 - toronto-lisp - mailman3.common-lisp.net

[toronto-lisp] Next meetup. Tuesday December 2nd?
by Rudolf 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

That's the first Tuesday of the month and that's what everyone seemed to agree on is a good date, right? I'm going to miss it again because of an exam :'( On the plus side I've been checking out the Processing language because of the course and wrote up an Emacs mode for it. -Rudolf O.

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[toronto-lisp] Summary of Meeting Nov 4
by Abram Hindle 06 Nov '08

06 Nov '08

Here are my notes, feel free to fill anything in if you attended: 5 people attended. Talked about: * Books ** Let Over Lisp (LOL). A book about Macros and Lisp. *** Author has very strong opinion about hygiene ** Functional Data Structures *** Useful for undo-able operations *** Non-mutable data structures ** On Lisp was mentioned in passing, LOL is supposed to be the follow up. * Emacs ** Like usual emacs came up ** Org-mode *** Useful for "Getting Things Done" (TM) *** Does hierarchical foldable lists with little text GUI widgets ** electric buffers ** navigating buffers ** SLIME + Clojure ** Quack for Scheme * Scheme ** Hygenic macros (RE LOL) ** Chicken Scheme *** Good library support *** Close to UNIX ** PLT Scheme *** immutable cons cells *** Performance improving *** Lots of code *** DrScheme debugger and macro expander *** Use w/ quack w/ Emacs * Clojure ** http://blip.tv/file/1313398/ ** doto macro (doto a (b) (c) (d)) instead of (. a (b)) (. a (c)) ... ** Laziness of sequences ** Is Map lazy? No it just returns a lazy sequence and guarantees no order of application ** arity functions * Vector graphics in CL ** Vecto library for vector graphics *** Very pretty movie charts w/ timeline stuff **** http://www.xach.com/moviecharts/ ** cl-svg - data driven svg bindings *** http://code.google.com/p/cl-svg/wiki/API_Basics ** cl-rsvg - cairo svg bindings - *** http://www.cliki.net/cl-rsvg * OODBMS in CL and Serialization ** DB4O in java and clojure ** Querying in OODBs ** PLOB ** How to mark something "Transient" when serializing? ** Some DBs http://www.cl-user.net/asp/libs/bdb http://www.cl-user.net/asp/libs/bknr http://www.cl-user.net/asp/libs/clouchdb http://www.cl-user.net/asp/libs/elephant http://www.cl-user.net/asp/libs/PLOB http://common-lisp.net/project/clouchdb/ * Blogs ** Stackoverflow, how it is full of funny stuff **** Mosquito Lisp -> Wasp Lisp - tiny embedded buffer overflow lisp *** Joel Spolsky is Joel Lolsky *** Lemonodor lisp/robotics *** Overcoming Bias - not lisp but rationality * Graph Rewriting ** Fluid-let ** Pacman *Lush * Tuesday was ok except there was a DJANGO sig at the same time at Linux Cafe

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[toronto-lisp] meeting dates
by Paul Tarvydas 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

Have we decided on 1st Tuesdays? Are we meeting tomorrow (Nov. 4)? pt

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[toronto-lisp] meeting dates
by Paul Tarvydas 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

I completely missed the discussion that set the first Thursday of the month to be the Toronto Lisp User Group meeting date, so I don't know if my question is ridiculous (e.g. akin to arguing about editors): Is it possible to consider another day for the regular meetings? I have a conflict with the first Thursday of the month (Royal Astronomical Society meetings on the first Thursday). Other Thursdays are good, and Tuesdays are good for me. If the day can't be changed, then I will simply have to choose to skip some meetings, when I wish to attend the RASC meetings. pt

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