January 2011 - toronto-lisp - mailman3.common-lisp.net

[toronto-lisp] Meeting Feb. 1
by Paul Tarvydas 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Dave Cooper, from Michigan, will be joining us again for the TOLUG meeting Tues. Feb. 1. He's going to skype in. I'm bringing my laughtop (windows, with video skype). If someone were to bring a backup, that would be good, too. pt

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[toronto-lisp] OCaml
by D. J. Penton 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

I have to get this off my chest. I am now seriously obliged to learn OCaml for use in a course in my grad program. In 2010 I just tinkered with the language. But the honeymoon is over. So far I hate OCaml more than words can say. Maybe it's the book I'm using to learn it. I ordered a different book from Amazon. I hope the new book helps. If not I shall suffer grievously throughout the term. I don't half mind Haskell, but Holy Snapping Assholes, Batman - not OCaml, pleeeeease. Pray for me. - Dave -

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Re: [toronto-lisp] toronto-lisp Digest, Vol 37, Issue 7
by patrick＠patrickjones.ca 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

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[toronto-lisp] Conversation with Gábor Melis
by Leo Zovic 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

http://www.franz.com/services/conferences_seminars/webinar_1-20-11.lhtml That's a link to franz' webinar signup page (no fee, AFAIK) for the webinar with Gábor Melis (the guy who won Google's AI competition using a bot implemented in Common Lisp). Could be interesting. -Leo

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[toronto-lisp] Meeting tomorrow, 6pm at Linuxcaffe
by Vish Singh 06 Jan '11

06 Jan '11

Please join us tomorrow for the first Toronto Lisp meeting of 2011. Brave the (rather slight) cold and meet your fellow Lispers. Tuesday January 4, 2011 -- 6pm -- Linuxcaffe (directions at lisptoronto.org) On the agenda: - Scheme is on iPad! http://web.mac.com/Jay_reynolds_freeman/My/Pixie_Scheme_III.html - Clojure discussion as suggested previously - plans for Lisp in 2011 - any presentations/demos would be welcome - ... see you there.

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[toronto-lisp] meeting tonight
by Paul Tarvydas 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

I'll be attending. A new member will be there, too. Last month a few people mentioned that they'd like some discussion about Clojure tonight. Is that still the plan? pt

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Re: [toronto-lisp] plans for Lisp in 2011
by Leo Zovic 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

Personally, I'm starting the year off by going through the codebase for Elite for Emacs <http://members.fortunecity.com/salkosuo/elite-for-emacs/> and trying to get a working game out of it. I'll let you know how it goes (and if I end up fully re-writing the thing, I'll toss it up on github with an open source license). -Leo

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Re: [toronto-lisp] plans for Lisp in 2011
by Paul Iannazzo 02 Jan '11

02 Jan '11

i haven't used a mailing list before, so i don't know if i'm replying to the message correctly. anyway, from what i've read/seen erlang is really good for distribution problems, and someone has already developed a p2p layered database over it (actually more than one person). p2p has some funny things about it in terms of reliability, even when you control all the nodes. it may be a good idea to at least look at the solutions that researches have made in regards to p2p datastores, i just happened to stumble upon them when learning about erlang. ~~ Paul Joseph Iannazzo.

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[toronto-lisp] plans for Lisp in 2011
by Vish Singh 02 Jan '11

02 Jan '11

Happy new year. I've started thinking about Lisp projects I could work on this year, since I feel like I didn't do enough real Lisp hacking in 2010. I'd like to write a distributed backup system in Clojure. It's a simple idea: create a distributed filesystem using the free hard drive space in people's PCs. If you backup 100GB of data, it will be replicated in two other places within this "cloud", but you must contribute 200GB of your free hard drive space to the cloud in return. Hence you get geographic redundancy for your backups while providing space for other people's backups. I believe that this system could be created entirely as a P2P app, without needing any centralized component. The slightly tricky part is to ensure fairness; i.e. that people give roughly as much as they receive. I'd like to write this in Clojure as I like the language, and being on the JVM makes it easy for the client app to run on Windows, Mac, and Linux. This project "scratches my own itch", as I've always disliked setting up and maintaining backups in multiple locations for my own data. People have thought of similar ideas before, for example: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/18-842-nwalia/ ... but I don't see that any such service has become popular. What would folks like to use Lisp for in 2011?

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