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[toronto-lisp] Learning Lisp
by David Penton 25 Sep '09

25 Sep '09

Greetings. I am in the process of learning CL. It is a very enjoyable process. I hope to attend the next meeting in Toronto to connect with other lispers. (I am in Burlington.) How active is the group? I am a true old-timer in software/computing. I have know for years that I should turn to lisp. I am finally getting around to doing so. The experience is something like a religious conversion, I am pleased to admit. While lisp may not be the "one true way" it is starting to look like it to me. My current learning environment is emacs + slime + sblc. This is a great combo, which I use primarily on my macbook but also on my Vista machine and under ubuntu. It seems to work pretty well on all three. Eventually I will purchase a commercial CL product. I hope the group will provide some guidance in that respect. Hoping to hear from y'all.... - Dave -

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[toronto-lisp] Our compatriot Paul has been blogged! ECLM notes
by Abram Hindle 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

http://aerique.blogspot.com/2009/09/some-eclm-2009-impressions.html abram

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[toronto-lisp] ECLM
by Brian Connoy 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

Just want to extend our associate, some words of support at ECLM. http://weitz.de/eclm2009/ "Knock 'em dead, Paul !"

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[toronto-lisp] GitHub repo is online + meeting Tuesday Sep 1 @ Linux Caffe
by Vishvajit Singh 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

As promised, I've created a repository on GitHub for our club. http://github.com/vishsingh/lisp-toronto/ This will be a centralized location for us to share: - Code and slides from presentations given at meetings - Code for projects we are currently working on - Scraps of code you wish to share with the group - etc. If you are a member of the group and you've been to at least one meeting, contact me personally and I will add you as a collaborator, and you'll be able to push to the repository. (You have to have a GitHub account -- they're free.) (Note: I'm new to GitHub so let me know if I'm doing anything wrong.) Our next step will be to start working on a project. But what should it be? For now, I'll create a project-ideas.txt on the repo.. ----------- Our next meeting is coming up soon. Toronto Lisp Users Group, September Meeting: Tuesday September 1st, 6pm, at the Linux Caffe Directions: walk south of Bloor from Christie Station, until you hit Harbord Street. Here's a map to the Linux Caffe from Christie Station: http://tinyurl.com/linuxcafe-lisp-meet We're looking for volunteers for talks, discussion, and tutorials. We'd love to hear about your current projects, proposals for projects, libraries you like, issues relevant to Lisp, etc. http://www.lisptoronto.org/ Come on out! Vish

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[toronto-lisp] Concurrency
by Brian Connoy 04 Sep '09

04 Sep '09

Just stumbled across this ... http://common-lisp.net/project/eager-future/ Reckon I'd post it, considering that concurrency often gets mention at our meets. BC

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[toronto-lisp] Away on vacation. Catch you at the next meeting.
by Mark Bolusmjak 31 Aug '09

31 Aug '09

Hello all, I wish I could attend the next meet, but I'm away on vacation. Hopefully I'll see you all at the next one. Cheers. -mark

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[toronto-lisp] Notes from the Metalevel, An Introduction to Computer Composition (with lisp!)
by Abram Hindle 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~ferguson/Notes%20from%20the%20Metalevel/nm/inde… More on lisp and computer music/composition. abram

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Re: [toronto-lisp] toronto-lisp Digest, Vol 20, Issue 4
by Patrick Jones 23 Aug '09

23 Aug '09

I'm currently reviewing Clojure for some business analytics tools I've been tasked to develop. Mainly it's a case of getting up to speed with the Halloway book before I can make any recommendations. On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 1:00 PM, <toronto-lisp-request(a)common-lisp.net>wrote: > Send toronto-lisp mailing list submissions to > toronto-lisp(a)common-lisp.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/toronto-lisp > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > toronto-lisp-request(a)common-lisp.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > toronto-lisp-owner(a)common-lisp.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of toronto-lisp digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Clojure success story (Vishvajit Singh) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:40:24 -0400 > From: Vishvajit Singh <vishvajitsingh(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [toronto-lisp] Clojure success story > To: toronto-lisp(a)common-lisp.net > Message-ID: > <520868e80908221340u7f8e1bd9ybc30e041154ec68(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/4e2b193812c59bd… > http://www.infoq.com/articles/flightcaster-clojure-rails > > This is an inspiring story of the use of Clojure along with many other > technologies to build a flight delay prediction tool > (flightcaster.com) > > Read it through.. it's quite the hacker's dream: > > Hadoop + Cascading + Amazon EC2/S3 + Ruby on Rails (Heroku) + Clojure > > Who wouldn't love to work on something like this? > > I wonder if Clojure is superseding Common Lisp as the "handyman's > Lisp". I've been using it recently to toy around with various AI ideas > I've had for a while, and I'm rather enjoying the elegance and clarity > of the language. > > Has anyone else been working with Clojure this month? > > Regards, > Vish > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > toronto-lisp mailing list > toronto-lisp(a)common-lisp.net > http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/toronto-lisp > > > End of toronto-lisp Digest, Vol 20, Issue 4 > ******************************************* > -- Seamos Los Exilios Desde La Soledad [my financial commentary] http://www.ibankcoin.com/peanut_gallery/index.php/author/cuervoslaugh [my rails blog] http://patrickonrails.blogspot.com [my software] http://github.com/cuervoslaugh

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[toronto-lisp] Clojure success story
by Vishvajit Singh 22 Aug '09

22 Aug '09

http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/4e2b193812c59bd… http://www.infoq.com/articles/flightcaster-clojure-rails This is an inspiring story of the use of Clojure along with many other technologies to build a flight delay prediction tool (flightcaster.com) Read it through.. it's quite the hacker's dream: Hadoop + Cascading + Amazon EC2/S3 + Ruby on Rails (Heroku) + Clojure Who wouldn't love to work on something like this? I wonder if Clojure is superseding Common Lisp as the "handyman's Lisp". I've been using it recently to toy around with various AI ideas I've had for a while, and I'm rather enjoying the elegance and clarity of the language. Has anyone else been working with Clojure this month? Regards, Vish

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[toronto-lisp] Meeting minutes added to website (lisptoronto.org)
by Vishvajit Singh 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

Fellow Toronto Lispers, I've cleaned up our website a little bit, and put up summaries of the last 4 meetings. I tend to braindump these things into a text file when I get home, but I haven't had the time to put them up until now. I hope you find them useful. If you attended a meeting, and your name is not there (or we only got your first name), feel free to correct it. Either contact Telman Yusupov to obtain permission to edit the site, or send me a quick e-mail. The next thing I'd like to do (soon) is set up a repository for our club on GitHub. Right now I mainly envision it as a place to play around with fun projects as a means of learning about Clojure. But we'll see how it goes. In the long term, it would be great if parts of it evolve into something worth contributing to clojure-contrib. With best regards, Vish Singh

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