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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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[toronto-lisp] Potential new user/dev group for free/open source software
by Rudolf Olah 26 Dec '10

26 Dec '10

I don't know how people feel about free/open source software here, but I've been kinda wanting to start a new group that promotes and encourages the use of free/open source software in Toronto and the GTA and in the rest of Ontario. In terms of Lisp, I guess this would mean discussing the perils and pitfalls of using certain open source licenses for Lisp code or Lisp implementations, and maybe discussing which free software implementations or open source modules are the best to use, and maybe how it impacts business. I think that's one of the larger issues; building a business on free software (I know a few Toronto Lisp people were involved in startups and larger enterprises). So what would you guys think about this? Does anyone here like talking about free/open source software? :P -- Rudolf Olah <omouse(a)gmail.com>

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[toronto-lisp] The weekly REPL
by Brian Connoy 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

"The Weekly REPL is a podcast covering news, events and commentary about the lisp family of programming languages - including Common Lisp<https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Common_Lisp>, Clojure<http://clojure.org>, Scheme<https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Scheme_%28programming_langua…>, Emacs Lisp<http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/elisp.html>, and more." http://lisp.geek.nz/weekly-repl/

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[toronto-lisp] Fwd: [tpm] [Fwd: The Upcoming Dynamic Language Smack Down]
by Abram Hindle 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

Is anyone defending lisp at this GTALUG meeting? abram -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [tpm] [Fwd: The Upcoming Dynamic Language Smack Down] Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 13:33:32 -0500 From: arocker(a)Vex.Net To: Toronto PerlMongers <tpm(a)to.pm.org> I'm going to be representing Perl at a GTALUG meeting (unless someone else wants the job :-)* ). If anyone has any suggestions they would like to make about the points in the notice, please let me know. The meeting notice follows: We are about six days away from the **Dynamic Language Smack Down** at the upcoming GTALUG meeting (14th December, 2010 at 7:30pm). We are going to start things off with a quick five minute introduction to your programming language. We would like you to describe your languages programming syntax by showing us a pre-made demo of code. This is my example <https://gist.github.com/720559>. Then we will have the following panel questions: * How does your language access functionality from C libraries? * How does your language deal with modularization of common functionality? * How does your language handle scalability issues? * Applications that require many concurrent threads of execution? * How does the language interact with threading? * Does it offer other models for managing concurrent processing? * Applications that require loading large volumes of code? * Parsing and compiling can be expensive; is there a precompiled form? * Applications that process huge volumes of data * If your dynamic programming language was not available, which of the other dynamic programming language would you recommend? * What is your languages biggest bug, problem, or limitation you are facing today? * How are you going to solve it? * What's the "sweet spot" for your language? * Where can I find more information about your language? * What kind of community is using and support your language? * What **local** community is using and supporting your language? * What language features are notable and interesting? * What notable applications are using the language? The address of our meeting is: Room GB248, Galbraith Building, University of Toronto 35 St George St Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G8 University of Toronto _______________________________________________ toronto-pm mailing list toronto-pm(a)pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/toronto-pm

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[toronto-lisp] Meeting tomorrow, 6pm, Linuxcaffe
by Vish Singh 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

The December meeting of the Toronto Lisp Users group is here! Brave the cold and meet your fellow Lispers. Tuesday December 7, 2010 -- 6pm -- Linuxcaffe (for directions see http://www.lisptoronto.org/)

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