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
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
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
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
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