From shrike at netaxs.com Fri Aug 2 18:18:12 2013 From: shrike at netaxs.com (Alex Plotnick) Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 14:18:12 -0400 Subject: Boston Lisp Meeting 2013-08-08T18:00 Message-ID: <201308021818.r72IICHr094987@sol.localdomain> I'm pleased to announce that Alexey Radul will present his work on the "DysVunctional Language" and its compiler at the next Boston Lisp meeting. The meeting will take place on Thursday, 8 August at 6:00 PM, in the Star Conference room at MIT's Stata Center (MIT 32-D463; ). Abstract: The "Sufficiently Clever Compiler" has become something of a trope in the Lisp community: the mythical beast that promises language and interface designers near-unlimited freedom, and leaves their output in a performance lurch by its non-appearance. A few years ago, I was young enough to join a research project to build one of these things. Neglecting a raft of asterisks, footnotes, and caveats, we ended up making something whose essence is pretty impressive: you pay for abstraction boundaries in compile-time resources, but they end up free at runtime. The prototype was just open-sourced recently, so that makes a good occasion to talk about it. Bio: Alexey Radul earned his PhD in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009. His research interests focus on programming languages, compilers, high-performance computing, and how advances in the design and implementation of programming languages can enable novel applications by expanding the complexity horizon. From marc.battyani at fractalconcept.com Thu Aug 8 21:53:28 2013 From: marc.battyani at fractalconcept.com (Marc Battyani) Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 17:53:28 -0400 Subject: Boston Lisp Meeting 2013-08-08T18:00 In-Reply-To: <5202A8FA.7040406@fractalconcept.com> References: <201308021818.r72IICHr094987@sol.localdomain> <5202A8FA.7040406@fractalconcept.com> Message-ID: <52041358.5010208@fractalconcept.com> Looks like I will not be able to make ittoday. Have fun! Marc On 7/8/13 16:07 , Marc Battyani wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Maybe you should advertize the Lisp meetings in meetup > http://www.meetup.com/find/?categories=34 > > See you all tomorrow. > > > On 2/8/13 14:18 , Alex Plotnick wrote: >> I'm pleased to announce that Alexey Radul will present his work on >> the "DysVunctional Language" and its compiler at the next Boston Lisp >> meeting. The meeting will take place on Thursday, 8 August at 6:00 PM, >> in the Star Conference room at MIT's Stata Center (MIT 32-D463; >> ). >> >> Abstract: >> The "Sufficiently Clever Compiler" has become something of a trope in >> the Lisp community: the mythical beast that promises language and >> interface designers near-unlimited freedom, and leaves their output in >> a performance lurch by its non-appearance. A few years ago, I was >> young enough to join a research project to build one of these things. >> Neglecting a raft of asterisks, footnotes, and caveats, we ended up >> making something whose essence is pretty impressive: you pay for >> abstraction boundaries in compile-time resources, but they end up free >> at runtime. The prototype was just open-sourced recently, so that >> makes a good occasion to talk about it. >> >> Bio: >> Alexey Radul earned his PhD in computer science from the Massachusetts >> Institute of Technology in 2009. His research interests focus on >> programming languages, compilers, high-performance computing, and how >> advances in the design and implementation of programming languages can >> enable novel applications by expanding the complexity horizon. >> >> >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kent at nhplace.com Wed Aug 7 22:41:53 2013 From: kent at nhplace.com (Kent Pitman) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 18:41:53 -0400 Subject: Boston Lisp Meeting 2013-08-08T18:00 In-Reply-To: <5202A8FA.7040406@fractalconcept.com> References: <201308021818.r72IICHr094987@sol.localdomain> <5202A8FA.7040406@fractalconcept.com> Message-ID: <03a101ce93bf$532344e0$f969cea0$@com> Or you could Tweet using #BostonLisp to communicate before or during the event. I don't know if I'll be there or not tomorrow, but sometimes I've been away from my email and have wished there were a simple public way to find out what's up in case I wanted to drop in last minute. Twitter would offer one such way. From: Marc Battyani [mailto:marc.battyani at fractalconcept.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 4:07 PM To: Alex Plotnick Cc: boston-lisp at common-lisp.net Subject: Re: Boston Lisp Meeting 2013-08-08T18:00 Hi Alex, Maybe you should advertize the Lisp meetings in meetup http://www.meetup.com/find/?categories=34 See you all tomorrow. On 2/8/13 14:18 , Alex Plotnick wrote: I'm pleased to announce that Alexey Radul will present his work on the "DysVunctional Language" and its compiler at the next Boston Lisp meeting. The meeting will take place on Thursday, 8 August at 6:00 PM, in the Star Conference room at MIT's Stata Center (MIT 32-D463; ). Abstract: The "Sufficiently Clever Compiler" has become something of a trope in the Lisp community: the mythical beast that promises language and interface designers near-unlimited freedom, and leaves their output in a performance lurch by its non-appearance. A few years ago, I was young enough to join a research project to build one of these things. Neglecting a raft of asterisks, footnotes, and caveats, we ended up making something whose essence is pretty impressive: you pay for abstraction boundaries in compile-time resources, but they end up free at runtime. The prototype was just open-sourced recently, so that makes a good occasion to talk about it. Bio: Alexey Radul earned his PhD in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009. His research interests focus on programming languages, compilers, high-performance computing, and how advances in the design and implementation of programming languages can enable novel applications by expanding the complexity horizon. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marc.battyani at fractalconcept.com Wed Aug 7 20:07:22 2013 From: marc.battyani at fractalconcept.com (Marc Battyani) Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 16:07:22 -0400 Subject: Boston Lisp Meeting 2013-08-08T18:00 In-Reply-To: <201308021818.r72IICHr094987@sol.localdomain> References: <201308021818.r72IICHr094987@sol.localdomain> Message-ID: <5202A8FA.7040406@fractalconcept.com> Hi Alex, Maybe you should advertize the Lisp meetings in meetup http://www.meetup.com/find/?categories=34 See you all tomorrow. On 2/8/13 14:18 , Alex Plotnick wrote: > I'm pleased to announce that Alexey Radul will present his work on > the "DysVunctional Language" and its compiler at the next Boston Lisp > meeting. The meeting will take place on Thursday, 8 August at 6:00 PM, > in the Star Conference room at MIT's Stata Center (MIT 32-D463; > ). > > Abstract: > The "Sufficiently Clever Compiler" has become something of a trope in > the Lisp community: the mythical beast that promises language and > interface designers near-unlimited freedom, and leaves their output in > a performance lurch by its non-appearance. A few years ago, I was > young enough to join a research project to build one of these things. > Neglecting a raft of asterisks, footnotes, and caveats, we ended up > making something whose essence is pretty impressive: you pay for > abstraction boundaries in compile-time resources, but they end up free > at runtime. The prototype was just open-sourced recently, so that > makes a good occasion to talk about it. > > Bio: > Alexey Radul earned his PhD in computer science from the Massachusetts > Institute of Technology in 2009. His research interests focus on > programming languages, compilers, high-performance computing, and how > advances in the design and implementation of programming languages can > enable novel applications by expanding the complexity horizon. > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: