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Re: [toronto-lisp] Next meetup. Tuesday December 2nd?
by gfb＠cs.toronto.edu 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 03:15:43PM -0500, Justin Giancola wrote: > I don't know if it would qualify as "specialized Lisp-related > experience" but over the past few months I've spent a disproportionate > amount of my free time reading about and programming in Clojure. That's exactly what I was interested in knowing (in two senses: knowing that someone who knows some Clojure would be there :)#). I might print out (I'm between laptops) http://clojure.org/{concurrent_programming,refs,agents,other_libraries} and bring it to spark some questions for me. I'd also be interested in "getting started" type information that fell through any cracks in the documentation. I'm also interested in it from the perspective of using it for teaching courses that might traditionally use C or other specicalized concurrent, parallel, etc languages. [...]

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[toronto-lisp] Summary of Meeting Nov 4
by Abram Hindle 06 Nov '08

06 Nov '08

Here are my notes, feel free to fill anything in if you attended: 5 people attended. Talked about: * Books ** Let Over Lisp (LOL). A book about Macros and Lisp. *** Author has very strong opinion about hygiene ** Functional Data Structures *** Useful for undo-able operations *** Non-mutable data structures ** On Lisp was mentioned in passing, LOL is supposed to be the follow up. * Emacs ** Like usual emacs came up ** Org-mode *** Useful for "Getting Things Done" (TM) *** Does hierarchical foldable lists with little text GUI widgets ** electric buffers ** navigating buffers ** SLIME + Clojure ** Quack for Scheme * Scheme ** Hygenic macros (RE LOL) ** Chicken Scheme *** Good library support *** Close to UNIX ** PLT Scheme *** immutable cons cells *** Performance improving *** Lots of code *** DrScheme debugger and macro expander *** Use w/ quack w/ Emacs * Clojure ** http://blip.tv/file/1313398/ ** doto macro (doto a (b) (c) (d)) instead of (. a (b)) (. a (c)) ... ** Laziness of sequences ** Is Map lazy? No it just returns a lazy sequence and guarantees no order of application ** arity functions * Vector graphics in CL ** Vecto library for vector graphics *** Very pretty movie charts w/ timeline stuff **** http://www.xach.com/moviecharts/ ** cl-svg - data driven svg bindings *** http://code.google.com/p/cl-svg/wiki/API_Basics ** cl-rsvg - cairo svg bindings - *** http://www.cliki.net/cl-rsvg * OODBMS in CL and Serialization ** DB4O in java and clojure ** Querying in OODBs ** PLOB ** How to mark something "Transient" when serializing? ** Some DBs http://www.cl-user.net/asp/libs/bdb http://www.cl-user.net/asp/libs/bknr http://www.cl-user.net/asp/libs/clouchdb http://www.cl-user.net/asp/libs/elephant http://www.cl-user.net/asp/libs/PLOB http://common-lisp.net/project/clouchdb/ * Blogs ** Stackoverflow, how it is full of funny stuff **** Mosquito Lisp -> Wasp Lisp - tiny embedded buffer overflow lisp *** Joel Spolsky is Joel Lolsky *** Lemonodor lisp/robotics *** Overcoming Bias - not lisp but rationality * Graph Rewriting ** Fluid-let ** Pacman *Lush * Tuesday was ok except there was a DJANGO sig at the same time at Linux Cafe

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[toronto-lisp] meeting dates
by Paul Tarvydas 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Have we decided on 1st Tuesdays? Are we meeting tomorrow (Nov. 4)? pt

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[toronto-lisp] meeting dates
by Paul Tarvydas 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

I completely missed the discussion that set the first Thursday of the month to be the Toronto Lisp User Group meeting date, so I don't know if my question is ridiculous (e.g. akin to arguing about editors): Is it possible to consider another day for the regular meetings? I have a conflict with the first Thursday of the month (Royal Astronomical Society meetings on the first Thursday). Other Thursdays are good, and Tuesdays are good for me. If the day can't be changed, then I will simply have to choose to skip some meetings, when I wish to attend the RASC meetings. pt

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[toronto-lisp] I missed the meetup tonight!
by Rudolf 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

Can someone (or two) give a summary of what went on? What was the presentation about, what was it like? Are there slides that can be viewed online? Sorry for missing out, I thought the cold I had would be destroyed by meds by 5pm, but nope :-/ -Rudolf

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[toronto-lisp] meeting tonight?
by Paul Tarvydas 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

Is the next TLUG meeting tonight (Oct. 2)? LinuxCafe? pt

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[toronto-lisp] Horse play
by Brian Connoy 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

Hi all, I have reason to believe one of the VB/C# pilots here at work, is going to jump ship. As well, a supporting contractor is on his final day today. In short, they are likely to be in a pinch soon with their in-house VB/C# development efforts. So why am I mentioning this here?!? My aim (as mentioned at a couple of the meets) is to lay the ground-work of a "Lisp shop". They don't know it yet, but Common Lisp is going to be their secret weapon. Although I don't play a role in the developments mentioned, one way to broaden the Lisp base is the 'ole Trojan Horse ploy ... a Common Lisp programmer smuggled inside a .NET horse! Interested equestrians are welcome to contact me for more details. BC

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[toronto-lisp] Next meetup dates: September 18th, October 2nd
by Rudolf 15 Sep '08

15 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 04 Sep '08

04 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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