Today we discussed creating a list of good Lisp books recommended by
the members of our group. I will put together such a list if you all
could write down your suggestions and reply to this thread. (The books
listed below can be considered included.) It would go up on
lisptoronto.org for the time being. For the future: It would be nice
to have an open "Toronto Lisp Wiki" that anyone can edit.
attendees:
Paul Tarvydas
Brian Connoy
Vishvajit Singh
Aleksandar Matijaca
Leo Zovic
Doug Hoyte
Bryce Moore
a subset of the topics discussed:
- old Lisp book from 1984, 2 pages on macros (what was this book?)
- Land of Lisp book, lots of drawings
- the Little, Seasoned, and Reasoned Schemer books
- SICP, SICM, PAIP
- International Lisp Conference (and SPLASH, formerly OOPSLA) in Reno,
Nevada, attended by Paul
* evolving fixes to software bugs
* picbreeder.org
* QuickLisp
* design of the Common Lisp Standard
* molecular biology needs good hackers
+ easier to teach a coder biology than to teach a biologist to code
+ the genome is in fact much like a computer program
+ surprisingly much of the genome is unused, filled with junk and
old retroviruses
- Rich Hickey's talks and presentations
* my personal favorite:
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey
- Lisp/Scheme on the iPad and iPhone
- POSIX support in the Windows NT kernel
- Homer: a tool for blind people to find their way in buildings
The November meeting of the Toronto Lisp Users Group: be there, or be
square [brackets]!
Tuesday November 2 2010 - 6PM - Linuxcaffe (for directions see
http://www.lisptoronto.org/)
Land of Lisp is an exciting new way to learn Lisp.. I wonder if anyone
has the e-book or physical versions to show off.
Come on out - and bring your Lisp books, Lisp code, Lisp war stories,
Lisp Halloween costumes, etc.!
See you tomorrow,
Vish
