Oh no, missed a video game discussion! (I'm the video game programmer from June's meeting). Well, hopefully I'll be able to make it in September.. I wish I could convince my company to use Lisp, but they're Japanese and rather risk-averse. I might be able to get them as far as Ruby if I really try.. Regards, Vish Singh On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Abram Hindle <abram.hindle@softwareprocess.us> wrote:
So the meeting went well.
In attendance: Rudolf, Chris, Andrew, Seneca, Abram
topics: * Lisp used in the video game Abuse * why scheme sucks for libraries * caaaaaaar and caaaaaaaaaadr and why they aren't great * Esoteric/dead languages * British Naval Victories * Lisp startup costs and how to alleviate it * mixins, traits, eiffel, inheritance of code versus type.
abram
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