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[toronto-lisp] Next meetup dates: September 18th, October 2nd
by Rudolf 14 Sep '08

14 Sep '08

Just a heads up. Next September meet up is the 18th. October meetup is just two weeks after because we have to shift back into 1st Thursday of the month mode. If you want to present in October, now's the time to say something. Paul T. if you're available for an October presentation on VF/event-driven programming that would be excellent. Or the other two topics that you mentioned here: http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/toronto-lisp/2008-August/000044.html Flip a coin or grab a 3-sided die (is that even possible?) to decide. You said some preparation time was necessary and hopefully this is enough. -Rudolf

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[toronto-lisp] Effecient I/O in SBCL
by Abram Hindle 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

I was running into problems with performance with SBCL. I want to read huge CSV files and convert ASCII representations of floats to floats. A. what's an effecient way to convert a string to a float B. what's an effecient way to read lines from a file C. what's an effecient way to split substrings from a string (I don't need to keep them around after I throw away the line) abram

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[toronto-lisp] September meetup and interesting projects
by Rudolf 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

== INTERESTING PROJECTS == Name some interesting projects you're working on! Zed Shaw posted a slightly interesting article about user groups, meetups, hackerspaces, social clubs, etc: http://www.zedshaw.com/rants/the_freehackers_union.html He says, I tried a few user groups, but there's barely anyone doing anything truly interesting. I really do enjoy the people who take the time to go to a user group for their favorite tech, but at the same time I feel like they're just there to escape their jobs. That's sad because I run into people who say, "(sigh) I have to do Rails", even at the Python groups. The Python group has had two months of meetings about fucking performance tuning. I love those guys, but holy baby jesus can we just move off of cython already? I hear reports that even the iPhone and Cocoa user group is lame. I mean, that group should be going ape shit right now. Projects...someone must be doing something interesting! Phd work, grad work, web work, desktop work, work work? Tell us more, maybe even present something :D Has anyone worked with Smalltalk or C#? What are they like compared to Common Lisp and Scheme? == NEXT MEETUP == Also, we need to decide the next meetup date. I'm thinking September 11th or 18th. They're all Thursdays of course, starting at 6pm, 99% chance of being at the LinuxCaffe. There's a fine Lisp meetup calendar here (in case you're in another city?): http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=pm55j8kg30dnm54ib2if9fuocc%40group… If Brian C. is still up for it, he could present at the next meetup, depending on if he's available for either of the days? -Rudolf

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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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