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/TheIn... 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