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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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[toronto-lisp] Scheme Shell Scripts
by Rudolf 24 Apr '08

24 Apr '08

She sells scheme shells by the scheme shore. Or something like that. Does anyone have some Scheme Shell (SCSH) scripts that they can send over? I'm writing an article with a few practical usage examples but I need more source code to look at. Thanks, Rudolf

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[toronto-lisp] Next meetup! and links
by Rudolf 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Hey, 8 people showed up for the meetup which is awesome. The food was good (I think?) and we had some tables in the backroom of the Fox & Fiddle which was much quieter than the rest of the place. We'll have to reserve those tables again next time. I had the thought that we could do monthly meetups during the warmer months, so that means the next meetup would be in the first week of May. If we go with the current schedule, then the next meetup is in June. So we're having a vote, who wants to do a meetup next month? Any other suggestions are welcome too. Also, here are some links to some of what was discussed last night: ContextL - http://common-lisp.net/project/closer/contextl.html Cells - http://www.cliki.net/Cells Art of the Meta-Object Protocol - http://www.amazon.com/Art-Metaobject-Protocol-Gregor-Kiczales/dp/0262610744 (can't find any PDF version of it, except for a sample of one chapter) Chicken Scheme - http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/ (someone mentioned they were replacing Perl scripts with this Scheme in particular?) Clojure - http://clojure.sourceforge.net/ I'm bad with names but there was a University of Waterloo student who mentioned doing analysis of source code indentation and how it indicates complexity. I think this is it: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~migod/papers/2008/icpc08-abram.pdf but I'm not sure. What other object-oriented Common Lisp books are there? Thanks, -Rudolf

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[toronto-lisp] Thursday 3 April, Meetup!
by Rudolf 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

I just called the Bloor Fox & Fiddle and told them that we need a few tables for 5-10 people. Just in case it's as busy as last time. Reminder: you can find location info here: http://wiki.alu.org/toronto -Rudolf

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[toronto-lisp] Google Summer of Code
by Rudolf 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

The Google Summer of Code project ideas and organizations list is up: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ One of the organizations is LispNYC whose project ideas are listed here: http://lispnyc.org/soc2008.clp Contact them if you want to mentor or if you'd like to join one of their projects. There are a few interesting projects listed like writing an extension to Firefox that allows you to use Common Lisp instead of JavaScript, and writing an interpreter or compiler for Javascript to be integrated with the Closure web browser. -Rudolf

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[toronto-lisp] Meetup Success!
by Rudolf 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

A bit of a follow-up to the meetup, I posted on the comp.lang.lispnewsgroup: The meetup was obviously a success. We had Gary Baumgartner make an appearance with 2-4 U of T Computer Science students. He mentioned some projects he had worked on and which are listed here: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~gfb/projects/<http://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Egfb/projects/>(But I can't seem to find a link to the Scheme-Python compiler/translator project.) One interesting thing Gary mentioned is creating a course that mixes both high- and low-level languages. From what I understood, you would be doing the Assembly homework during the week that you're learning the Python (or Scheme or whatever) that does roughly the same thing. We also had a Common Lisp user from Montreal (he's surrounded by Schemers there *shudder* right? :P) Quite the varied gathering. Oh, and I finally learned how to properly pronounce TeX and LaTeX. Just one more thing. Maybe we should get the ALU Wiki page for Toronto back in order? The URL is: http://wiki.alu.org/Toronto Oh and another thing. Keep bugging Gary and other Lispers to release code. Toss it and don't worry too much about how clean the code looks. -Rudolf Olah

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[toronto-lisp] Next meetup!
by Rudolf 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

The next meetup is going to be 3 April 2008. That's the first Thursday of April. I've setup a facebook event in case you use it: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=9038472973 We're going to be using the Association of Lisp Users wiki to organize. That way you can toss in your contact info or whatever else there. The URL for that is: http://wiki.alu.org/toronto I think the bi-monthly meetups are a good idea for the winter months but maybe for the spring/summer we'll have monthly meetups. Yes? No? Toss in your vote! Also, does anyone have any useful SCheme SHell scripts that they've created? -Rudolf

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[toronto-lisp] SPITE: S-expression Python Is Truly Extendible
by Rudolf 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

That's the name of project Gary (senior lecturer at U of T) was talking about at the last meet up. Here's a sample of it: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~gfb/projects/richer-language-extension/spite.scm It can turn: (= the_world_is_flat 1) (if the_world_is_flat ((print "Be careful not to fall off!"))) into: the_world_is_flat = 1 if the_world_is_flat : print "Be careful not to fall off!" That's just a quick and dirty sample apparently. It will be interesting to see a lengthier example whenever that's posted up. -Rudolf

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