Here are my toronto lisp users group notes. The topics are expressed in rough order of appearance. Sorry no hyperlinks right now.
* LISP Meeting <2008-12-02 Tue>
Overall the meeting was about communication, semantics, lexicons and models. Oh with a real lack of syntax (use sexprs) unless we need it. Gary probably led most of the discussion.
How does this relate to LISP? Sexprs and expressability.
*** Concurrency -> Expressability of Lisp - The language problem - ORC - stratego - programming rewriting - TXL etc - issue of performance - Adoption - low level lisp - sassy - assembler and scheme macros - call out to scheme - siag - scheme in a grid - proto scheme - natural language ??? - legalese - semantics - grammar - lexical - more semantics - more semantics - back to concurrency support - call return - grammar - did I mention semantics *** Convienance - Prolog to lisp and vice versa - erlang - concurrency convienance *** GUIs - Book: Humane interface - jeff raskin - ... missed some *** Visualization -> Diagrams - studies - communication - diagrams have limitations - discussion - making diagrams - executability *** Tree structured program - Book: Design Driven Design - macros are semantics independant - why bother making the syntax - work on semantics - SE & Tree Structure - Tree Specs - Executable specs - formal specs? - formal language for specs? - use sexprs - human translation to - formal?? - paraphrased: - gary says model driven design/arch/spec - fails due to a lack of lisp? - Elegance versus symbolics - nice drawings mean - problem is defined - once you can winnow SE down to diagrams - you're a real engineer - Book: Realistic Compiler Generator from MIT Press.
*** Meeting Ended
*** people in attendance - abram - brian - paul - justin - james - chris - gary