From damned at theworld.com Tue Apr 1 02:06:29 2008 From: damned at theworld.com (mark) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:06:29 -0400 Subject: [boston-lisp] Recordings of presentations Message-ID: Firstly, thank you to the presenters tonight. And thanks to ITA for the food. Secondly, since i know i will be missing the next meeting on the 22nd due to a business trip and i saw some persons taping the presentations, i am curious when/if those will become public somehow? Thanks Mark Simpson -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 193 bytes Desc: not available URL: From ourdoings at ourdoings.com Tue Apr 1 02:47:03 2008 From: ourdoings at ourdoings.com (ourdoings.com) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:47:03 CDT Subject: [boston-lisp] (Bruce Lewis) setting up photo news for Boston Lisp Users Message-ID: If this is a moderated list, do not approve this message; just use the link in it. 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Dulcey) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:54:25 -0400 Subject: [boston-lisp] Recordings of presentations In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <47F1A3E1.7080402@buttery.org> mark wrote: > > Secondly, since i know i will be missing the next meeting on the 22nd > due to a business trip and i saw some persons taping the > presentations, i am curious when/if those will become public somehow? We are still working out how it will be done. My current thought is to encode the video as MP4 and post it on the group web site when we have one. I will encode tonight's second presentation (I didn't arrive in time for most of the first one, stupid T) and put it on my personal web server temporarily so people can make sure it plays properly; it will later move. I hope the presenters also make their slides available for us to post (or link to on their websites if they prefer). From brlewis at ourdoings.com Tue Apr 1 03:06:18 2008 From: brlewis at ourdoings.com (brlewis at ourdoings.com) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:06:18 CDT Subject: [boston-lisp] March 31 meeting Message-ID: MON, MAR 31: ALEXEY RADUL ON WHY I HATE SCHEME; RAHUL JAIN ON DEFDOC (Bruce Lewis) About 70 people showed up to hear Alexey Radul speak on why he hates Scheme and what he's doing about it, and to hear Rahul Jain's presentation on DefDoc, a lisp-based document description and processing system. Illustrated at http://ourdoings.com/boston-lisp/2008-03-31 This message was put together in 29 seconds from ourdoings.com. http://ourdoings.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From sds at gnu.org Wed Apr 2 13:40:05 2008 From: sds at gnu.org (Sam Steingold) Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:40:05 -0400 Subject: [boston-lisp] lisp job in MA Message-ID: <47F38CB5.9040003@gnu.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 lisp project is 9+ months in Cambridge Ma. if interested, please contact Roger Neild Team Lead Software/Hardware Consulting Services Oxford & Associates ~ a division of On Assignment 155 West Street Suite 7 Wilmington, MA 01887 978.284.6290 FAX roger_neild at oxfordcorp.com www.oxfordcorp.com Oxford Europe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH84y1Pp1Qsf2qnMcRAlvvAJ0ZZQ/mTDJvifJeQL8oKCS+64eLnQCgnCwU bmAd/gIApLYnbQeBNBvuEW8= =MW2+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From fahree at gmail.com Thu Apr 3 00:28:03 2008 From: fahree at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Far=E9?=) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 20:28:03 -0400 Subject: [boston-lisp] Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Tuesday April 22nd 2008, 6pm at MIT 34-401B Message-ID: <653bea160804021728l4d1591b3gada32ca13fff5fe8@mail.gmail.com> http://fare.livejournal.com/121355.html Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Tuesday April 22nd 2008, 6pm at MIT 34-401B ITA Software, a fine employer of Lisp hackers (full disclaimer: they employ me), has kindly offered to sponsor a dinner for our Monthly Boston Lisp Meeting. Please send mail to boston-lisp-meeting-register at common-lisp.net with a list of attendees so I may order the correct amount of food. No registration, no food. Peter Dillinger will give a 25' talk about Theorem proving with ACL2s. ACL2, "A Computational Logic for Applicative Common Lisp", was recognized with the 2005 ACM Software System Award for its power and usefulness in verifying safety-critical applications. New users, however, found it difficult to use for a variety of reasons. ACL2s < http://acl2s.peterd.org/acl2s/ > is an Eclipse-based development environment we have made to make ACL2 easier to learn and use. Peter C. Dillinger is a Ph.D. Student at Northeastern University, Panagiotis Manolios, advisor. Hans H?bner will give a 50' presentation of The BKNR Common Lisp web application development environment. BKNR < http://bknr.net/ > is a one-stop repository of open source Common Lisp modules used to develop and deploy web applications, featuring a pure Lisp transaction based persistence layer. Hans H?bner has been a hacker for over 20 years, and has discovered Common Lisp as his favourite programming language in 2001. He is a freelance consultant whose research interests include persistence systems and hardware to support dynamic programming. Please note that the meeting is taking place at an unusual date, to accomodate for the availability of the main speaker, who is coming from Berlin (Germany) to talk to us. The Lisp Meeting with take place at MIT, room 34-401B. As the numbers indicate, this is in Building 34, on the 4th floor. MIT map: http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?selection=34 Google map: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=50+Vassar+St,+Cambridge,+MA+02139,+USA PS: The previous Boston Lisp Meeting on March 31st was a big success, with over 70 attendants. Thanks a lot to all those who came. I hope we'll meet again and have more of those interesting conversations. PPS: We're still looking for speakers. We have a lot of potential speakers, but not enough confirmed speakers at scheduled dates. The call for speakers and all the other details are at < http://fare.livejournal.com/120393.html >. PPPS: Please forward this information to people who would be interested. Please accept my apologies for your receiving this message multiple times. For posts related to the Boston Lisp meetings in general, follow this link: http://fare.livejournal.com/tag/boston-lisp-meeting [ Fran?ois-Ren? ?VB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] - "If you're so smart, how come you're not rich?" - "If you're so rich, how come you're not smart?" -- narrated by Steven E. Landsburg, "The Armchair Economist" From dan.stanger at ieee.org Thu Apr 3 02:34:33 2008 From: dan.stanger at ieee.org (Dan Stanger) Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:34:33 -0500 Subject: [boston-lisp] Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Tuesday April 22nd 2008, 6pm at MIT 34-401B In-Reply-To: <653bea160804021728l4d1591b3gada32ca13fff5fe8@mail.gmail.com> References: <653bea160804021728l4d1591b3gada32ca13fff5fe8@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <47F44239.5050805@ieee.org> Hello All, The list boston-lisp-meeting-register is not available yet. I will send out an anouncement when it is. Regards, Dan From mark at buttery.org Mon Apr 7 06:49:14 2008 From: mark at buttery.org (Mark J. Dulcey) Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:49:14 -0400 Subject: [boston-lisp] DevDoc video Message-ID: <47F9C3EA.3060003@buttery.org> Video of the DevDoc presentation is available for downloading at http://www.buttery.org/DevDoc.mp4 -- be warned, it's a 71MB file. You can play it with QuickTime on Windows or Mac, or with various players on Linux. I don't recommend trying to play it inside your web browser -- you'll have to wait a long time before it begins to play. This location is TEMPORARY -- hitting my home connection with 71MB downloads won't fly long-term. I would like at least a couple of group members to check it out, however, and let me know what you think. In the future, I will try to use an off-camera microphone that is closer to the presenter, but the sound is intelligible. I would like to either have these hosted on the group web site in the future, or upload them to YouTube or other similar video hosting service. Technical details for the curious: it is encoded as MP4 video at 384Kbps ABR, and AAC audio at 128Kbps. The video is 320x240 pixels with a frame rate of 29.97fps, the native frame rate of NTSC video. It was edited with Sony Vegas 6 (I haven't upgraded yet) and encoded by the Main Concept MP4 encoder. The original source material was NTSC MiniDV video. From xach at xach.com Mon Apr 7 12:59:44 2008 From: xach at xach.com (Zach Beane) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 08:59:44 -0400 Subject: [boston-lisp] DevDoc video In-Reply-To: <47F9C3EA.3060003@buttery.org> References: <47F9C3EA.3060003@buttery.org> Message-ID: <20080407125944.GV3375@xach.com> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 02:49:14AM -0400, Mark J. Dulcey wrote: > Video of the DevDoc presentation is available for downloading at > http://www.buttery.org/DevDoc.mp4 -- be warned, it's a 71MB file. > > You can play it with QuickTime on Windows or Mac, or with various > players on Linux. I don't recommend trying to play it inside your web > browser -- you'll have to wait a long time before it begins to play. > > This location is TEMPORARY -- hitting my home connection with 71MB > downloads won't fly long-term. I didn't get a chance to watch it, yet, but I put up a torrent here: http://www.xach.com/bt/DevDoc.mp4.torrent It's on a relatively fast connection, and the more people grab it the faster it goes for everyone. Zach From bitwize at gmail.com Mon Apr 7 13:04:06 2008 From: bitwize at gmail.com (Jeff Read) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:04:06 -0700 Subject: [boston-lisp] DevDoc video In-Reply-To: <47F9C3EA.3060003@buttery.org> References: <47F9C3EA.3060003@buttery.org> Message-ID: <1137897b0804070604l73f20eebmf8e39451a562e88d@mail.gmail.com> On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Mark J. Dulcey wrote: > Video of the DevDoc presentation is available for downloading at > http://www.buttery.org/DevDoc.mp4 -- be warned, it's a 71MB file. > Minor nit: The program was called DefDoc. :) --Jeff (Jev?) From mark at buttery.org Mon Apr 7 15:00:53 2008 From: mark at buttery.org (Mark J. Dulcey) Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:00:53 -0400 Subject: [boston-lisp] DevDoc video In-Reply-To: <1137897b0804070604l73f20eebmf8e39451a562e88d@mail.gmail.com> References: <47F9C3EA.3060003@buttery.org> <1137897b0804070604l73f20eebmf8e39451a562e88d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <47FA3725.1010406@buttery.org> Jeff Read wrote: > On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Mark J. Dulcey wrote: >> Video of the DevDoc presentation is available for downloading at >> http://www.buttery.org/DevDoc.mp4 -- be warned, it's a 71MB file. >> > > Minor nit: The program was called DefDoc. :) > > --Jeff (Jev?) Apologies! Guess it's what happens when you're hacking late at night and tired... I'm trying a Google Video upload now to see how that goes, and if it works out that version will have the correct title. From mark at buttery.org Wed Apr 9 06:19:43 2008 From: mark at buttery.org (Mark J. Dulcey) Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:19:43 -0400 Subject: [boston-lisp] DefDoc now on Google Video Message-ID: <47FC5FFF.2040306@buttery.org> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1671235577423219425&hl=en -- try it out. From fahree at gmail.com Wed Apr 9 12:35:51 2008 From: fahree at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Far=E9?=) Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:35:51 -0400 Subject: [boston-lisp] DefDoc now on Google Video In-Reply-To: <47FC5FFF.2040306@buttery.org> References: <47FC5FFF.2040306@buttery.org> Message-ID: <653bea160804090535u4afe5c3fuea968a95be2bdd41@mail.gmail.com> Congratulations! We have slides and audio for Alexey Radul's presentation. Can anyone here make a video from that? [ Fran?ois-Ren? ?VB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] On the Gaussian curve: Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be an experimental fact. -- Jules Henri Poincare (1854-1912) [French mathematician] On 09/04/2008, Mark J. Dulcey wrote: > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1671235577423219425&hl=en > -- try it out. From brlewis at ourdoings.com Wed Apr 9 13:12:30 2008 From: brlewis at ourdoings.com (Bruce Lewis) Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 09:12:30 -0400 Subject: [boston-lisp] DefDoc now on Google Video In-Reply-To: <47FC5FFF.2040306@buttery.org> References: <47FC5FFF.2040306@buttery.org> Message-ID: I linked to this video from my writeup of the March 31 meeting: http://ourdoings.com/boston-lisp/ Obviously my writeup was really brief. Feel free to add comments about anything worth noting from that meeting. If anyone has photos or writeups of previous meetings, click the Edit tab on that page, register, log in, and volunteer for management (MGMT authorization level). You can use your OpenID login if you have one. On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:19 AM, Mark J. Dulcey wrote: > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1671235577423219425&hl=en -- try > it out. > _______________________________________________ > boston-lisp mailing list > boston-lisp at common-lisp.net > http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/boston-lisp > -- http://ourdoings.com/ Amazingly simple photo sharing -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fahree at gmail.com Wed Apr 9 15:22:40 2008 From: fahree at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Far=E9?=) Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 11:22:40 -0400 Subject: [boston-lisp] Recordings from previous meeting Message-ID: <653bea160804090822uc8133b6lb278a2a14f2e7805@mail.gmail.com> So we have * Video of Rahul Jain talking about DefDoc (thanks to Mark Dulcey) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1671235577423219425 * Audio of both Alexey Radul's and Rahul Jain's talks (thanks to Rob Levy) http://robertplevy.net/boston-lisp/ * Slides from Alexey Radul (thanks to Alexey, attached). [ Fran?ois-Ren? ?VB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful -- just stupid.) -- Robert Heinlein, "Time Enough For Love" -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: slides.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 234552 bytes Desc: not available URL: From dan.stanger at ieee.org Wed Apr 9 23:34:02 2008 From: dan.stanger at ieee.org (Dan Stanger) Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:34:02 -0400 Subject: [boston-lisp] Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Tuesday April 22nd 2008, 6pm at MIT 34-401B] Message-ID: <47FD526A.1010507@ieee.org> Hello All, This list is now functional: boston-lisp-meeting-register at common-lisp.net Dan Stanger Far? wrote: > http://fare.livejournal.com/121355.html > Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Tuesday April 22nd 2008, 6pm at MIT 34-401B > > ITA Software, a fine employer of Lisp hackers (full disclaimer: they > employ me), has kindly offered to sponsor a dinner for our Monthly > Boston Lisp Meeting. Please send mail to boston-lisp-meeting-register > at common-lisp.net with a list of attendees so I may order the correct > amount of food. No registration, no food. > > Peter Dillinger will give a 25' talk about Theorem proving with ACL2s. > ACL2, "A Computational Logic for Applicative Common Lisp", was > recognized with the 2005 ACM Software System Award for its power and > usefulness in verifying safety-critical applications. New users, > however, found it difficult to use for a variety of reasons. ACL2s < > http://acl2s.peterd.org/acl2s/ > is an Eclipse-based development > environment we have made to make ACL2 easier to learn and use. Peter > C. Dillinger is a Ph.D. Student at Northeastern University, Panagiotis > Manolios, advisor. > > Hans H?bner will give a 50' presentation of The BKNR Common Lisp web > application development environment. BKNR < http://bknr.net/ > is a > one-stop repository of open source Common Lisp modules used to develop > and deploy web applications, featuring a pure Lisp transaction based > persistence layer. Hans H?bner has been a hacker for over 20 years, > and has discovered Common Lisp as his favourite programming language > in 2001. He is a freelance consultant whose research interests include > persistence systems and hardware to support dynamic programming. > > Please note that the meeting is taking place at an unusual date, to > accomodate for the availability of the main speaker, who is coming > from Berlin (Germany) to talk to us. > > The Lisp Meeting with take place at MIT, room 34-401B. As the numbers > indicate, this is in Building 34, on the 4th floor. > > MIT map: http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?selection=34 > > Google map: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=50+Vassar+St,+Cambridge,+MA+02139,+USA > > PS: The previous Boston Lisp Meeting on March 31st was a big success, > with over 70 attendants. Thanks a lot to all those who came. I hope > we'll meet again and have more of those interesting conversations. > > PPS: We're still looking for speakers. We have a lot of potential > speakers, but not enough confirmed speakers at scheduled dates. The > call for speakers and all the other details are at < > http://fare.livejournal.com/120393.html >. > > PPPS: Please forward this information to people who would be > interested. Please accept my apologies for your receiving this message > multiple times. > > For posts related to the Boston Lisp meetings in general, follow this > link: http://fare.livejournal.com/tag/boston-lisp-meeting > > [ Fran?ois-Ren? ?VB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] > - "If you're so smart, how come you're not rich?" > - "If you're so rich, how come you're not smart?" > -- narrated by Steven E. Landsburg, "The Armchair Economist" > _______________________________________________ > boston-lisp mailing list > boston-lisp at common-lisp.net > http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/boston-lisp > > From kreuter at progn.net Mon Apr 14 22:32:52 2008 From: kreuter at progn.net (Richard M Kreuter) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:32:52 -0400 Subject: [boston-lisp] Reminder: please RSVP for next week's meeting Message-ID: <20194.1208212372@progn.net> Hello, If you plan to attend next week's Boston Lisp meeting and haven't yet sent a message to that effect to boston-lisp-meeting-register at common-lisp.net, please do so sooner than later. (The organizers use this number to decide how much food to order -- no registration, no food!) Thanks, Richard From crisachow14 at gmail.com Tue Apr 15 16:44:26 2008 From: crisachow14 at gmail.com (C C) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:44:26 -0400 Subject: [boston-lisp] Reminder: please RSVP for next week's meeting In-Reply-To: <20194.1208212372@progn.net> References: <20194.1208212372@progn.net> Message-ID: <394a3f890804150944o57bbb933neb609cc430f998d1@mail.gmail.com> Hello, I am rsvping for the lisp meeting. Cristina On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Richard M Kreuter wrote: > Hello, > > If you plan to attend next week's Boston Lisp meeting and haven't yet > sent a message to that effect to boston-lisp-meeting-register at > common-lisp.net, please do so sooner than later. 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URL: From didier at lrde.epita.fr Wed Apr 16 15:28:10 2008 From: didier at lrde.epita.fr (Didier Verna) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:28:10 +0200 Subject: [boston-lisp] Reminder: [CFP] 5th European Lisp Workshop, July 7 2008, Cyprus Message-ID: +------------------------------------------------------------+ | CALL FOR PAPERS | | 5th European Lisp Workshop | | July 7, Paphos, Cyprus - co-located with ECOOP 2008 | +------------------------------------------------------------+ Important Dates: **************** Submission deadline (papers & breakout groups): May 04, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 19, 2008 ECOOP early registration deadline: June 01, 2008 5th European Lisp Workshop: July 07, 2008 For more information visit http://elw.bknr.net/2008/ Contact: Didier Verna, didier at lrde.epita.fr Organizers ********** Didier Verna, EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, Paris Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths College, University of London Charlotte Herzeel, Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel Hans H?bner, Software Developer, Berlin Overview ******** "...Please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and Graphics, AI, Bioinformatics, B2B and E-Commerce, Data Mining, EDA/Semiconductor applications, Expert Systems, Finance, Intelligent Agents, Knowledge Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation, Natural Language, Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Telecom, and Web Authoring just because these are the only things they happened to list." -- Kent Pitman Lisp is one of the oldest computer languages still in use today. In the decades of its existence, Lisp has been a fruitful basis for language design experiments as well as the preferred implementation language for applications in diverse fields. The structure of Lisp makes it easy to extend the language or even to implement entirely new dialects without starting from scratch. Common Lisp, with the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS), was the first object-oriented programming language to receive an ANSI standard and retains the most complete and advanced object system of any programming language, while influencing many other object-oriented programming languages that followed. It is clear that Lisp is gaining momentum: there is a steadily growing interest in Lisp itself, with numerous user groups in existence worldwide, and in Lisp's metaprogramming notions which are being transferred to other languages, as for example in Aspect-Oriented Programming, support for Domain-Specific Languages, and so on. This workshop will address the near-future role of Lisp-based languages in research, industry and education. We solicit papers and suggestions for breakout groups that discuss the opportunities Lisp provides to capture and enhance the possibilities in software engineering. We want to promote lively discussion between researchers proposing new approaches and practitioners reporting on their experience with the strengths and limitations of current Lisp technologies. The workshop will have two components: there will be formally-presented talks, and breakout groups discussing or working on particular topics. Additionally, there will be opportunities for short, informal talks and demonstrations on experience reports, underappreciated results, software under development, or other topics of interest. Papers ****** Formal presentations in the workshop should take between 20 minutes and half an hour; additional time will be given for questions and answers. We encourage that papers be published on the website, to provide all participants with background information in advance. Suggested Topics: - New language features or abstractions - Experience reports or case studies - Protocol Metaprogramming and Libraries - Educational approaches - Software Evolution - Development Aids - Persistent Systems - Dynamic Optimization - Implementation techniques - Innovative Applications - Hardware Support for Lisp systems - Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches - Aspect-Oriented, Domain-Oriented and Generative Programming Breakout Groups *************** The workshop will provide for the opportunity to meet face to face and work on focused topics. We will organize these breakout groups and provide for rooms and infrastructure. Suggested Topics for Breakout Groups: - Lisp Infrastructure Development and Distribution - Language Features (e.g. Predicate Dispatching) - Environments for creating web applications - Brainstorming sessions for new or existing open source projects - Persistence Systems - Compiler technology - Lisp on bare metal / Lisp hardware / Lisp operating systems - Compare and enhance curricula for computer science education Submission Guidelines ********************* Potential attendees are encouraged to submit: - a long paper (10 pages) presenting scientific and/or empirical results about Lisp-based uses or new approaches for software engineering purposes, - a short essay (5 pages) defending a position about where research, practice or education based on Lisp should be heading in the near future, - a proposal for a breakout group (1-2 pages) describing the theme, an agenda and/or expected results. Submissions should be mailed as PDF to Didier Verna (didier at lrde.epita.fr) before the submission deadline. -------------- next part -------------- -- Didier Verna, didier at lrde.epita.fr, http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier EPITA / LRDE, 14-16 rue Voltaire Tel.+33 (0)1 44 08 01 85 94276 Le Kremlin-Bic?tre, France Fax.+33 (0)1 53 14 59 22 didier at xemacs.org From brlewis at ourdoings.com Tue Apr 22 23:45:12 2008 From: brlewis at ourdoings.com (brlewis at ourdoings.com) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:45:12 CDT Subject: [boston-lisp] April 22 meeting Message-ID: TUE, APR 22: PETER DILLINGER ON ACL2S; HANS H?BNER ON BKNR (Bruce Lewis) Peter Dillinger spoke about Theorem proving with ACL2s. ACL2, "A Computational Logic for Applicative Common Lisp", was recognized with the 2005 ACM Software System Award for its power and usefulness in verifying safety-critical applications. New users, however, found it difficult to use for a variety of reasons. ACL2s is an Eclipse-based development environment we have made to make ACL2 easier to learn and use. Peter C. Dillinger is a Ph.D. Student at Northeastern University, Panagiotis Manolios, advisor. Hans Hu"bner gave a presentation of The BKNR Common Lisp web application development environment. BKNR is a one-stop repository of open source Common Lisp modules used to develop and deploy web applications, featuring a pure Lisp transaction based persistence layer. He showed createrainforest.org as an example application, as well as a Google Earth version. Hans Hu"bner has been a hacker for over 20 years, and has discovered Common Lisp as his favourite programming language in 2001. He is a freelance consultant whose research interests include persistence systems and hardware to support dynamic programming. 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URL: From pcd at ccs.neu.edu Wed Apr 23 16:45:54 2008 From: pcd at ccs.neu.edu (Peter Dillinger) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:45:54 -0500 Subject: [boston-lisp] April 22 meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20080423164553.GD23762@wreck.org> I just posted materials from my presentation: http://www.peterd.org/acl2s-boston-lisp/ See also, of course http://acl2s.peterd.org/acl2s/doc/ and http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~moore/acl2/ -- Peter Dillinger pcd at ccs.neu.edu http://www.peterd.org From r.p.levy at gmail.com Wed Apr 23 18:48:15 2008 From: r.p.levy at gmail.com (rob levy) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:48:15 -0400 Subject: [boston-lisp] audio files & podcast Message-ID: Hi, I posted last night's audio here: http://www.robertplevy.net/boston-lisp/ Also, I have put up a basic xml feed using xml-emitter in Common Lisp. I have verified that it works in bashpodder, google reader, and opera's feed reader (probably works in the other applications too): feed: http://www.robertplevy.net/boston-lisp/boston-lisp-podcast.xml code that generates it: http://www.robertplevy.net/boston-lisp/boston-lisp-podcast.lisp Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fahree at gmail.com Wed Apr 23 18:59:30 2008 From: fahree at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Far=E9?=) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:59:30 -0400 Subject: [boston-lisp] April 22 meeting In-Reply-To: <20080423164553.GD23762@wreck.org> References: <20080423164553.GD23762@wreck.org> Message-ID: <653bea160804231159w43d0b3a8nb7cc28cac2adb6bd@mail.gmail.com> Thanks to the 40 people who attended. And thanks to ITA Software for the indian food (from India Pavilion) and the pizzas (from Bertucci's). Peter Dillinger posted his presentation material: http://www.peterd.org/acl2s-boston-lisp/ http://acl2s.peterd.org/acl2s/doc/ http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~moore/acl2/ Hans H?bner also posted his slides on his blog: http://netzhansa.blogspot.com/2008/04/bknr-at-boston-lisp-meteing.html http://bknr.net/pdf/datastore-presentation.pdf http://bknr.net/ Next meeting will be on TUESDAY, May 27th 2008 at 1800, probably at the same place. Speaking will be Ivan Krsti? (on security and programming languages?) and Greg Cooper (on FrTime). ITA will be our sponsor for the dinner that will follow. Please register for food. [ Fran?ois-Ren? ?VB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by equal rights of others. I do not add "within the limits of the law" because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. -- Thomas Jefferson From brlewis at ourdoings.com Mon Apr 28 13:13:52 2008 From: brlewis at ourdoings.com (Bruce Lewis) Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:13:52 -0400 Subject: [boston-lisp] Lisp / functional programming freelance experiences? Message-ID: Someone who loves Lisp is asking about professional possibilities. Please share your experience here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=175116 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fahree at gmail.com Tue Apr 29 18:50:01 2008 From: fahree at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Far=E9?=) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:50:01 -0400 Subject: [boston-lisp] Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Tuesday May 27th 2008, 6pm at MIT 34-401B Message-ID: <653bea160804291150j700dc48fi45c852900c10e69d@mail.gmail.com> Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Tuesday May 27th 2008, 6pm at MIT 34-401B NB: ITA Software, a fine employer of Lisp hackers (full disclosure: I work there), has kindly offered to sponsor a dinner for our Monthly Boston Lisp Meeting. Please send mail to boston-lisp-meeting-register at common-lisp.net with a list of attendees so we may order the correct amount of food. Ivan Krsti? will give a 25' talk about Security and Programming Languages. Ivan Krsti? http://radian.org/ is notably the prized author of Bitfrost, the security architecture for the OLPC XO laptop. Greg Cooper will give a 50' talk about FrTime: A Dataflow Extension of DrScheme. Dataflow programming extends functional programming with time-varying values called signals. Signals provide a simple, declarative mechanism for expressing event-driven programs without callbacks or explicit side-effects. This talk will present FrTime, an extension of PLT Scheme with dataflow evaluation. The language's distinguishing features include an event-driven evaluation model, transparent reuse of Scheme code, support for reactive data structures, and integration with the DrScheme programming environment. The talk will include a demonstration of the language and programming environment, along with a discussion of the key design decisions and main ideas underlying the implementation strategy. Greg Cooper developed FrTime while he was a graduate student at Brown University, working with Shriram Krishnamurthi. He now works for ITA Software. Please note that the meeting is taking place at an unusual date, to accommodate for the availability of our main speaker. The Lisp Meeting with take place at MIT, room 34-401B. As the numbers indicate, this is in Building 34, on the 4th floor. MIT map: http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?selection=34 Google map: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=50+Vassar+St,+Cambridge,+MA+02139,+USA PS: The previous Boston Lisp Meeting on April 22nd was a success with 40 participants, despite a few organizational glitches for which I apologize. Thanks a lot to all those who came. I hope we'll meet again and have more of those interesting conversations. PPS: We're still looking for speakers. We have a lot of potential speakers, but not enough confirmed speakers at scheduled dates. The call for speakers and all the other details are at http://fare.livejournal.com/120393.html PPPS: Please forward this information to people who would be interested. Please accept my apologies for your receiving this message multiple times. For more information, see our new web site boston-lisp.org. For posts related to the Boston Lisp meetings in general, follow this link: http://fare.livejournal.com/tag/boston-lisp-meeting or subscribe to our RSS feed: http://fare.livejournal.com/data/rss?tag=boston-lisp-meeting [ Fran?ois-Ren? ?VB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. -- Rich Cook