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[toronto-lisp] Next meetup :o August 7th?
by Rudolf 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

Hey, I've been neglecting my responsibilities as a Lisper and looking at JavaScript, a wee bit of Java and now Smalltalk. So the next meetup will be August 7th, which is a Thursday. After 6pm of course and I'm thinking LinuxCaffe may be fine. They don't seem to have anything planned for 7 August. Other suggestions for a location are, of course, welcome. Also, ideas for presentations are friggin' badly needed. If you named your dog Lisp, or you have a tattoo of a lambda on your arm, give a small 10min talk about it! :-D Get a presentation idea together or you'll hear some preaching on the Virtues of Emacs from me (old college presentation I did, it ended with "you're a loser if you don't use Emacs!" so uh, I don't want a repeat of that ;-) ) -Rudolf

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[toronto-lisp] Re: Sushi date
by Ian Buckley 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Do we have a sushi date tonight? Also, shall we try to get S&D or S&M to babysit for us during August and see a film / play or have dinner, while we still can? ILY Ian XXX

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[toronto-lisp] Lisp meetup today, 6pm, LinuxCaffe, 326 Harbord Street
by Rudolf 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Just a reminder! Today's the meetup, 6pm. LinuxCaffe is about a block south of Christie subway station. Check the map at http://wiki.alu.org/toronto -Rudolf

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[toronto-lisp] power outlet
by Paul Tarvydas 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Whoever gets there first tonight, please get a table near a power outlet - my laptop battery is old and doesn't hold a charge long enough to survive a boot-up :-). pt

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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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