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[toronto-lisp] Call for presentations for next meetup: 5 June 2008, 6pm onwards
by Rudolf 12 May '08

12 May '08

I've emailed the Linuxcaffe owner dude and asked if we can have a meetup there. I've always asked if there's a projector. In any case, the people demand presentations! The presentations should be Lisp-related though functional programming stuff is welcome too (Haskell, OCaml, whatever). Maximum length of the presentations should be around 10 minutes. There will be 2 presentations per meetup, maybe 3. I think that's a solid amount. Some ideas for topics: the internals of Clojure, the advantages of CLOS, Scheme Shell's awesomeness in comparison to Python/Perl/Ruby, tiny Lisp interpreters, etc. Just email the list with your presentation ideas or edit the Wiki at http://wiki.alu.org/Toronto . I'm open to suggestions. - Rudolf Olah

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[toronto-lisp] 1 May Meetup Aftermath
by Rudolf 04 May '08

04 May '08

Hey, thanks for showing up to the May meetup (if you did show up that is). The next official meetup is in June. It looks like we'll switch to a monthly meetup schedule. Who showed up: Justin, Brain C, Ian B, Rudolf, Ben, and two other people whose names I forgot to take down heh. Anyway, here are links to various items discussed: - Notation as a Tool of Thought http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=358899 - Mosquito Lisp Bill Clementson discussed it -> http://bc.tech.coop/blog/061119.html - Hedgehog Lisp Main website -> http://hedgehog.oliotalo.fi/ Lemonodor discussed it -> http://lemonodor.com/archives/001086.html - Smalltalk books Blue book (Language Implementation/Specification) -> http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook.pdf Red book (Interactive Programming Environment) -> http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/TheInteractiveProgrammingEnv/TheI… Green book (Bits of History, Words of Advice) -> http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BitsOfHistory/BitsOfHistory.pdf - Gauche Scheme http://practical-scheme.net/gauche/ - Practical Scheme: Asset-tracking for the production of the Final Fantasy movie http://www.lava.net/~shiro/Private/essay/gdc2002.html - Jones Forth http://www.annexia.org/forth - SRE design by Olin Shivers (S-expression-based notation for regular expressions) http://www.scsh.net/docu/post/sre.html - foof's IrRegex (66k of regular expression code) http://synthcode.com/scheme/irregex/ - APL - A Glimpse of Heaven http://www.vector.org.uk/archive/v231/legrand.htm - LUSH, a C/Lisp hybrid (allows embedded C code) Main website -> http://lush.sourceforge.net/ Mixing C and Lisp code inline -> http://lush.sourceforge.net/lush-manual/30381be4.html#1.14 - APROL, a J and Scheme hybrid Click through to get the PDF -> http://reddit.com/info/6d16m/comments - Meta Math! by Gregory Chaitin http://www.amazon.com/Meta-Math-Quest-Gregory-Chaitin/dp/1400077974 - Lockhart's Lament, criticises the current method of teaching math http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_03_08.html - ParEdit.el: structured editing of S-expressions http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ParEdit - NoSQL, the UNIX shell as a 4GL http://www.strozzi.it/cgi-bin/CSA/tw7/I/en_US/NoSQL/Home%20Page - Representative syntax, ficl parse steps http://ficl.sourceforge.net/parsesteps.html Some of these are only remotely Lisp-related. Am I missing anything? Rudolf

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[toronto-lisp] Unofficial meetup: 1 May 2008
by Rudolf 01 May '08

01 May '08

There's an unofficial meetup on the 1st of May which is the first Thursday of the month, at the Fox & Fiddle of course. Show up if you like, there will probably be just a few people showing up. The next official meetup will be in June, on the 5th. -Rudolf

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