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