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[toronto-lisp] So the next meeting is Tuesday July 7th?
by Abram Hindle 07 Jul '09

07 Jul '09

Just to confirm, our next meeting is Tuesday July 7th? abram

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[toronto-lisp] A lisp job in canada, job posting.
by Abram Hindle 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

http://lispjobs.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/auphelia-technologies-erp/

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[toronto-lisp] CL Ants in comp.lang.lisp
by Paul Tarvydas 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

In case anyone missed it, Rich Hickey responded at length about the purpose of his Ants example in this thread on comp.lang.lisp: http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_thread/thread/1d014c846… pt

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[toronto-lisp] The speed, size and dependability of programming languages
by Mark Bolusmjak 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

Great to see you all again. Here is the article I mentioned: http://gmarceau.qc.ca/blog/2009/05/speed-size-and-dependability-of.html -mark

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[toronto-lisp] Toronto Lisp Users Group Meeting -- Tuesday June 2nd @LinuxCaffe
by Vishvajit Singh 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Hello everyone! Our next meeting is coming up soon. Toronto Lisp Users Group -- June Meeting: June 2nd, 6pm, Linux Caffe (Walk south of Bloor from Christie Station, until you hit Harbord Street) AS USUAL: We're looking for volunteers for talks, discussion, tutorials. Your current projects, proposal for projects, libraries you like, tutorials or related Lispy languages, issues relevant to Lisp, etc. So I still haven't received my Clojure book, although I got an email saying it's on the way. Looking forward to thumbing through the hardcopy version, and I'll bring it in when I've received it.. As a substitute, I'll bring in "Godel, Escher, Bach"! I've been trying to wrap my head around it.. there may be a hint of LISPyness in there, perhaps. http://www.lisptoronto.org/ Come on out! Vish

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[toronto-lisp] Clojure on Google App Engine
by Vishvajit Singh 11 May '09

11 May '09

http://www.fatvat.co.uk/2009/05/clojure-on-google-app-engine.html I think it was Ian who mentioned at the last meeting that he was interested in trying Clojure on Slicehost. Here's another option.. this appears to be a way to get Clojure running on the Google App Engine. Seems like a fun thing to try, if you want a web application running and don't want to shell out any cash. Vish

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[toronto-lisp] how was the meeting?
by Abram Hindle 07 May '09

07 May '09

How was the lispmeet? abram

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[toronto-lisp] Nice to meet you all
by Mark Bolusmjak 06 May '09

06 May '09

I'll be playing with Clojure and reading The Little Schemer and The Seasoned Schemer in preparation for next month's meeting. Cheers. Mark

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[toronto-lisp] Toronto Lisp Users Group Meeting Tuesday May 5th @ Linux Caffe
by Vishvajit Singh 05 May '09

05 May '09

Hello everyone! Our next meeting is coming up soon. Toronto Lisp Users Group May Meeting: May 5th, 6pm, Linux Caffe (Walk north of Bloor from Christie Station, until you hit Harbord Street) We're looking for volunteers for talks, discussion, tutorials. Your current projects, proposal for projects, libraries you like, tutorials or related LISPy languages, issues relevant to lisp etc. Given the amount of discussion on concurrency we've had this month, why not make it a concurrency meeting? I'll bring my laptop, and we can play around with Rich Hickey's Ants simulation. http://www.lisptoronto.org/ Come on out! Vish

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[toronto-lisp] Lisp in Video Games
by Vishvajit Singh 26 Apr '09

26 Apr '09

Just read an interesting article about the use of a proprietary Lisp variant in the game "Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy": http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20020710/white_01.htm Covers the pros and cons of using Lisp. Among the cons: "A single programmer (who could easily be one of the top ten Lisp programmers in the world) wrote GOAL. While he called his Lisp techniques and programming practices 'revolutionary,' others referred to them as 'code encryption,' since only he could understand them." Amusing :) Vish

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[toronto-lisp] April meeting minutes available on the website
by Vishvajit Singh 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

Hi everyone, I've written up the minutes for the April meeting, and put them up here: http://www.lisptoronto.org/past-meetings/2009-04-meeting Feel free to add anything you can remember. If you don't have permissions for the website, ask Telman for them. I've also put up that Sudoku solver I wrote in Clojure -- it's attached to that page. I've tried to make the code as neat as possible. Take a look! Another thing.. in the spirit of what Abram said to me in the subway station -- if you want our club to work on projects, start them yourself! -- I'm going to start studying Compojure, and when I've learned it I'll start a project for the club. Right now I'm thinking of making a Reddit-clone.. but I'm open to suggestions. Cheers, Vish Singh

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[toronto-lisp] oops
by Paul Tarvydas 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

Oops, sorry for sending that to the whole mailing list. Someday, someone will invent a "REPLY" button that does not produce surprises... pt

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[toronto-lisp] state machine macro
by Paul Tarvydas 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

Yesterday, I talked about the state machine macro I used, but forgot to show the actual macro. If anybody wants to see it, email me. pt

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[toronto-lisp] Amusement of the week
by Christopher Browne 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

http://thinkinq.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/yodawg-lisp-700.jpg -- http://linuxfinances.info/info/linuxdistributions.html George Burns - "I spent a year in that town, one Sunday." - http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/george_burns.html

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[toronto-lisp] mailing list
by Paul Tarvydas 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

Yesterday, at the meeting, I said that I had not received all of the emails from the list. It looks like I was wrong - I found Abram's email buried in the noise - I simply missed seeing it. pt

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[toronto-lisp] next meeting tomorrow
by Paul Tarvydas 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

The next meeting is tomorrow, April 7, yes? Any volunteers to talk about a specific topic? If not, I would enjoy getting an explanation on how to set up clojure with emacs (or whatever other options there might be) and a discussion of what GUI-building library is best to use with it (I'm blissfully ignorant of the Java world, so pointers to tutorials would also be helpful :-). If nobody has anything to talk about, then I could, off the top of my head, talk about state machines and my state machine macros and/or PAIP prolog and/or factbases. pt

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[toronto-lisp] Toronto Lisp Users Group Meeting Tuesday April 7th @ Linux Caffe
by Abram Hindle 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

So this coming Tuesday is our April Meeting. Do anyone have anything they could talk about at the meet? Do we need a projector? Toronto Lisp Users Group April Meeting: April 7th, 6pm, Linux Caffe (Walk north of bloor from Christie Station, til you hit Harboard street) We're looking for volunteers for talks, discussion, tutorials. Your current projects, proposal for projects, libraries you like, tutorials or related LISPy languages, issues relevant to lisp etc. If you feel obligated to present something but don't have any idea, I suggest going into Common Lisp or Scheme R5RS and talking about how a certain function or object works, how it is implemented etc, things that use it. It is pretty easy to get a couple of minutes of content from that. http://www.lisptoronto.org/ Hope to see you there! abram

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[toronto-lisp] How'd the meeting go?
by Abram Hindle 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

I apologize for missing it :( I really wanted to come, but how did it go? Do we have clojure slides? abram

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[toronto-lisp] Set up next meeting 6pm Tuesday March 3 @linuxcaffe
by Abram Hindle 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

I might not make it but we should get something together. Can anyone present a couple of minutes on clojure? Is next Tuesday a good time? 6pm Tuesday March 3 abram

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[toronto-lisp] ILC 2009
by Justin Giancola 10 Feb '09

10 Feb '09

Out of curiosity, is anyone thinking of attending this year's International Lisp Conference? It's being held at MIT, and the lineup looks very interesting. http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2009 ________ Justin

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[toronto-lisp] Factor notes, and website discussion
by Telman Yusupov 10 Feb '09

10 Feb '09

Hi all, - The paper that I mentioned is called "Out of the tar pit" and is available here http://web.mac.com/ben_moseley/frp/paper-v1_01.pdf. The paper addresses the issue of software complexity and management of state is cited as the single largest contributor to complexity of software systems. - If I'm in town next month (there's a possibility that I'll be away on a consulting engagement), I'll be glad to do a presentation on Clojure. - I wholeheartedly agree on the need for the website and ready to provide the domain www.lisptoronto.org (name patterned after www.lispnyc.org) Currently, it is hosted at Google Sites<http://www.google.com/sites/help/intl/en/overview.html>for free. Google Sites seems to be a nice web-based app that can serve needs of the group well: it works as a wiki and allows addition of file attachments, widgets (Google calendars, photo albums, spreadsheets and some others). Please let me know if hosting it there is ok with everyone interested. - If yes, then I'll add anyone who request to the list of site operators, effectively turning it into a wiki where anyone on the list can add/change stuff. - If not, we can host it anywhere else. Cheers, Telman 2009/2/8 Abram Hindle <abram.hindle(a)softwareprocess.us> Yes you're right we need a website! > > Here are my notes on the last meeting > > * LISP Meeting > ** Attendance 5 > Ali > Abram > Telman > Paul > Vishvajit > ** Website > We need a website, what should be on it > *** Name > - toronto-lisp.net > Free from Telman > *** hosting > - dreamhost $0 > abram offers > - possible hosting > - google sites > *** Conclusion > Send to mailing list > we should discuss this further > ** Factor > *** Forth intro > - stack based > - tree demo > *** factor > - random tree > - time daemon > *** TELMAN - Read Paper Out of tarpit > - on clojure group > - revert state > - restarting always work > *** Abram goes off about > - ruby-magick-scheme > git clone http://churchturing.org/magick-what/ (I think) > - Lispy Perl or Perlish Lisp > http://churchturing.org/x/lisp-perl > http://churchturing.org/x/lisp-perl/presentation/ > http://churchturing.org/x/lisp-perl/presentation/presentation.out.pdf > > *** More website discussion > > > > Vishvajit Singh wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I've attached the notes from my Factor presentation last week, along > > with some of the code I demonstrated. I'm new at giving this kind of > > presentation, so it was a learning experience for me. I think that the > > live presentation I gave (actual coding, mistakes and all) worked a > > lot better than a PowerPoint-style one would have. I hope to give more > > presentations in the future. > > > > This stuff really ought to go on a website. Let's set up a Toronto > > Lisp website for tutorials, code snippets, meeting minutes, project > > collaboration, and so on. I believe someone said they already had a > > domain name registered, which is great. How about we set up a Wiki at > > first, and see where it goes? > > > > Vish Singh > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > toronto-lisp mailing list > > toronto-lisp(a)common-lisp.net > > http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/toronto-lisp > > > > _______________________________________________ > toronto-lisp mailing list > toronto-lisp(a)common-lisp.net > http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/toronto-lisp > >

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[toronto-lisp] Factor notes, and website discussion
by Vishvajit Singh 09 Feb '09

09 Feb '09

Hi everyone, I've attached the notes from my Factor presentation last week, along with some of the code I demonstrated. I'm new at giving this kind of presentation, so it was a learning experience for me. I think that the live presentation I gave (actual coding, mistakes and all) worked a lot better than a PowerPoint-style one would have. I hope to give more presentations in the future. This stuff really ought to go on a website. Let's set up a Toronto Lisp website for tutorials, code snippets, meeting minutes, project collaboration, and so on. I believe someone said they already had a domain name registered, which is great. How about we set up a Wiki at first, and see where it goes? Vish Singh

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[toronto-lisp] We don't have a webpage?
by Abram Hindle 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

We need to get a webpage going! When's the next meeting? I can offer webhosting and free subdomains of: churchturing.org softwareprocess.us abram

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[toronto-lisp] Scheme based Adware ?
by Abram Hindle 14 Jan '09

14 Jan '09

http://philosecurity.org/2009/01/12/interview-with-an-adware-author S: You wrote adware. You bastard. M: [sheepishly] Yes, I did. I got to write half of it in Scheme, which probably means that I deployed more Scheme runtime than anybody else on the planet. abram

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[toronto-lisp] Clojure: Serious business
by Rudolf 14 Jan '09

14 Jan '09

It looks like we have to take Clojure seriously now: http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_frm/thread/85649a134cf22655 It's running on a production system! :O -Rudolf O.

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