From fare at tunes.org Fri Jan 9 00:50:21 2009 From: fare at tunes.org (Francois-Rene Rideau) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 16:50:21 -0800 (PST) Subject: [boston-lisp] 2009-01-26 Boston Lisp Meeting: David O'Toole on Common Lisp and Rogue-like Games Message-ID: <20090109005021.A0F7D3FD4@bespin.org> Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday January 26th 2009 at 1800 at MIT 34-401B David O'Toole on Common Lisp and Rogue-like Games David O'Toole will give a talk about Common Lisp and Rogue-like Games. The 1980 gaming classic "Rogue" and its descendants (NetHack and Angband, among many others) continue to thrill hard-core gamers, finding a new audience many years later. Part of the thrill comes from the high replayability factor brought about by the genres's randomized settings and endlessly variable play experiences; rogue-like games used "procedural content generation" a long time before it became a games-industry buzzword. These games have usually been written in C or C++, but a growing, seething mass of Lisp Rogue-likes have lurched ominously onto the scene. David will show how Rogue-like games present interesting challenges to the Lisp developer, and how he met those challenges with video demonstrations of his code in action. His software can be found at http://dto.github.com/notebook/rlx.html David O'Toole is a Lisp developer living in Central Massachusetts, USA, who works in Common Lisp and Emacs Lisp. His lifelong interest in video and computer games led him to study computer science and then to work at Irrational Games in Boston (now called 2K Boston). David is now a consultant and builds custom audio-oriented computers in his spare time. His website is at http://dto.github.com/notebook/ * The Lisp Meeting will take place on Monday January 26th 2009 at 1800 (6pm) at MIT, Room 34-401B. As the numbers indicate, this is in Building 34, on the 4th floor. This is the usual location, on 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge. 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 Many thanks go to Alexey Radul for arranging for the room, and to MIT for welcoming us. * * Dinner: we don't yet have a sponsor this year for an after-meeting buffet, but the organizers will go someplace to have dinner and a drink not too far from the conference venue, and you'll be welcome to join us. * * * The previous Boston Lisp Meeting on November 24th had over 30 participants. Gregory Marton gave a very inspiring talk about the meanings of English words as programs, and how computers could learn such programs through various interactions. We're always looking for more speakers. The call for speakers and all the other details are at http://fare.livejournal.com/120393.html 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 Please forward this information to people you think would be interested. Please accept my apologies for your receiving this message multiple times. My apologies if this announce gets posted to a list where it shouldn't, or fails to get posted to a list where it should. Feedback welcome by private email reply to fare at tunes.org. From brlewis at ourdoings.com Fri Jan 23 20:14:09 2009 From: brlewis at ourdoings.com (Bruce Lewis) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:14:09 -0500 Subject: [boston-lisp] glowing review of Scheme-based web site Message-ID: Hello Boston Lisp. I wasn't sure I could attend next week's interesting-looking meeting, and it seems even less likely now, but for happy reasons. I'm dealing with a lot of new users and feature requests for my Scheme-based web site after it got a good review: http://www.louisgray.com/live/2009/01/our-doings-you-upload-moment-they.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From matthewknox at gmail.com Sat Jan 24 00:36:25 2009 From: matthewknox at gmail.com (Matt Knox) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:36:25 -0500 Subject: [boston-lisp] glowing review of Scheme-based web site In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: what's the tech stack behind ourdoings.com ? 2009/1/23 Bruce Lewis > Hello Boston Lisp. I wasn't sure I could attend next week's > interesting-looking meeting, and it seems even less likely now, but for > happy reasons. I'm dealing with a lot of new users and feature requests for > my Scheme-based web site after it got a good review: > > > http://www.louisgray.com/live/2009/01/our-doings-you-upload-moment-they.html > > > _______________________________________________ > boston-lisp mailing list > boston-lisp at common-lisp.net > http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/boston-lisp > > -- (def (eval e l d c) (if (atom? e) ((ahandler (type e)) e l d c) (eval (car e) l d (fun (x) (evapp x (cdr e) l d c))))) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brlewis at ourdoings.com Sat Jan 24 02:23:32 2009 From: brlewis at ourdoings.com (Bruce Lewis) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:23:32 -0500 Subject: [boston-lisp] glowing review of Scheme-based web site In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Linux / Jetty / BRL (Kawa Scheme) / PostgreSQL On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Matt Knox wrote: > what's the tech stack behind ourdoings.com ? > > 2009/1/23 Bruce Lewis > >> Hello Boston Lisp. I wasn't sure I could attend next week's >> interesting-looking meeting, and it seems even less likely now, but for >> happy reasons. I'm dealing with a lot of new users and feature requests for >> my Scheme-based web site after it got a good review: >> >> >> http://www.louisgray.com/live/2009/01/our-doings-you-upload-moment-they.html >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> boston-lisp mailing list >> boston-lisp at common-lisp.net >> http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/boston-lisp >> >> > > > -- > (def (eval e l d c) > (if (atom? e) > ((ahandler (type e)) e l d c) > (eval (car e) l d > (fun (x) > (evapp x (cdr e) l d c))))) > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dlw at alum.mit.edu Sat Jan 24 11:49:34 2009 From: dlw at alum.mit.edu (Daniel Weinreb) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:49:34 -0500 Subject: [boston-lisp] glowing review of Scheme-based web site In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <497B004E.6050608@alum.mit.edu> Cool. It will be in the "Success Stories" section of my survey paper's next version. -- Dan Bruce Lewis wrote: > Linux / Jetty / BRL (Kawa Scheme) / PostgreSQL > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Matt Knox > wrote: > > what's the tech stack behind ourdoings.com ? > > 2009/1/23 Bruce Lewis > > > Hello Boston Lisp. I wasn't sure I could attend next week's > interesting-looking meeting, and it seems even less likely > now, but for happy reasons. I'm dealing with a lot of new > users and feature requests for my Scheme-based web site after > it got a good review: > > > http://www.louisgray.com/live/2009/01/our-doings-you-upload-moment-they.html > > > _______________________________________________ > boston-lisp mailing list > boston-lisp at common-lisp.net > http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/boston-lisp > > > > > -- > (def (eval e l d c) > (if (atom? e) > ((ahandler (type e)) e l d c) > (eval (car e) l d > (fun (x) > (evapp x (cdr e) l d c))))) > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > boston-lisp mailing list > boston-lisp at common-lisp.net > http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/boston-lisp > -- ________________________________________ Daniel Weinreb http://danweinreb.org/blog/ Lisp: The Next 50 Years: http://ilc09.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: