From marcoxa at cs.nyu.edu  Mon Dec  2 09:58:06 2019
From: marcoxa at cs.nyu.edu (Marco Antoniotti)
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 10:58:06 +0100
Subject: On preparations to turn the Bear past 11
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Dear Mark, dear all

I salute (belatedly) your achievements!

Well done!

Marco






> On Nov 22, 2019, at 24:15 , Mark Evenson <evenson at panix.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear long-suffering fans of the Bear,
> 
> Rejoice! for preparations for the release of abcl-1.6.0 to support
> openjdk{6,7,8,11} and beyond near completion.
> 
> We have managed to get a [Continuous Integration (CI)][travis-builds]
> build mostly working via Travis CI integration with the Github
> repository.  Anyone who forks us on Github with suitable monkeying
> around can get automated build and test results for their commits to
> their fork.  The [current version of the tests][.travis.yml] attempt
> to run in environments that are the cross product of macOS/Linux with
> openjdk8/openjdk11.  This isn't quite completely working yet as I
> haven't apparently figured out how to use jenv in Travis to specify
> the correct openjdk to invoke, but I'm close.  For now, we at least
> getting test coverage for openjdk11 under Linux, and I hope to iron
> out the remaining kinks real soon now.  It should be theoretically
> possible to [add Windows builds][windows-builds] as well, but I am
> planning on to tackling that in the near future.
> 
> The CI tests have given me the confidence to next attempt to release
> abcl-1.6.0 via existing release engineering process in spite of the
> following problems:
> 
> 1. While they seemingly pass in the CI, the CFFI linkages to CL+SSL
>   libraries often fail in a spectacularly segmentation fault in
>   practical use.  With judicious refinement, I think we can figure
>   out what is going but for now we should just accept this.
> 
> 2. [A major regression from abcl-1.5.0][pathname-problems] concerning
>   the use of CL:PATHNAME to refer to objects within a jar/zip archive
>   has been discovered, but curiously it is seemingly not fatal to
>   anything other than the execution of ABCL test suite.  In analyzing
>   the problems, I realized that we can considerably clean up our
>   abstraction for a CL:PATHNAME which denotes an entry in an archive
>   by allowing nested archives using the CL:PATHNAME-DEVICE component.
>   To do this in a reasonably clean manner means a fair amount of
>   modification on the Java side of our implementation by reflecting
>   the various types of a CL:PATHNAME in that Java hierarchy as Erik
>   Hülsmann suggested many years ago.  While I have some promising
>   preliminary patches towards this, due to the amount of outstanding
>   effort, I feel we should get abcl-1.6.0 out first.
> 
> Please holler loudly real soon if anyone has problems with releasing
> as things currently stand.
> 
> I intend follow up with abcl-1.6.1 within a month to hopefully address
> the two major blockers in addition to any errata.
> 
> [travis-builds]: https://travis-ci.org/armedbear/abcl/builds
> [.travis.yml]: https://github.com/armedbear/abcl/blob/master/.travis.yml
> [windows-builds]: https://twitter.com/ArmedBear/status/1197538417678192645
> [cl+ssl-problems]: https://abcl.org/trac/ticket/464
> [pathname-problems]: https://github.com/armedbear/abcl/commit/e962be5e0dd86335cc66415a0a417f9e4bb3040b
> 
> yers,
> Mark <evenson at panix.com>
> 
> -- 
> "A screaming comes across the sky.  It has happened before but there is nothing 
> to compare to it now."
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

--
Marco Antoniotti




From evenson at panix.com  Wed Dec  4 20:37:00 2019
From: evenson at panix.com (Mark Evenson)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2019 21:37:00 +0100
Subject: coerce a number to a short
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> On Nov 27, 2019, at 05:53, somewhat-functional-programmer <somewhat-functional-programmer at protonmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Here's a workaround in the meantime (though it's more verbose)... using java.lang.Short.reverseBytes(short s) as the test case[1]:
> 
> ;; no such method failure
> (jstatic "reverseBytes" "java.lang.Short" #x7f)


[Tests via ABCL-PROVE added.][ABCL-PROVE]

[ABCL-PROVE]: https://github.com/armedbear/abcl/pull/131

-- 
"A screaming comes across the sky.  It has happened before but there is nothing 
to compare to it now."







From didier at lrde.epita.fr  Fri Dec  6 11:59:49 2019
From: didier at lrde.epita.fr (Didier Verna)
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 12:59:49 +0100
Subject: [CfP] ELS 2020, 13th European Lisp Symposium, April 27-28, Zurich
Message-ID: <m2y2vpu0ju.fsf@lrde.epita.fr>


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

		     13th European Lisp Symposium
		      Special Focus on Compilers

			   Call for papers

		      April 27 - April 28, 2020
			     GZ Riesbach
			 Zürich, Switzerland

	     http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/2020

		      Sponsored by EPITA, Igalia S.L.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Invited Speakers
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Andrew W. Keep (Cisco Systems, Inc.), on the Nanopass Framework.
Daniel Kochmański (Turtleware), on ECL, the Embeddable Common Lisp.


Important Dates
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Submission deadline: February 13, 2020
- Author notification: March 16, 2020
- Final papers due:    April 6, 2020
- Symposium:           April 27 - 28, 2020


Scope
~~~~~
The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for
the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design,
implementation and application of any of the Lisp dialects, including
Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, Clojure, Racket, ACL2, AutoLisp,
ISLISP, Dylan, ECMAScript, SKILL and so on. We encourage everyone
interested in Lisp to participate.

The European Lisp Symposium 2020 invites high quality papers about
novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical
applications, and educational perspectives. We also encourage
submissions about known ideas as long as they are presented in a new
setting and/or in a highly elegant way.

This year's focus will be directed towards "Compilers".

We especially invite submissions in the following areas:

- Compiler techniques
- Compiler passes
- Compiler compilers
- Showcasing of industrial or experimental compilers
- Code generation
- Compiler verification
- Compiler optimizations
- JIT compilers

Contributions are also welcome in other areas, including but not
limited to:

- Context-, aspect-, domain-oriented and generative programming
- Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches
- Language design and implementation
- Language integration, inter-operation and deployment
- Development methodologies, support and environments
- Educational approaches and perspectives
- Experience reports and case studies


Technical Program
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We invite submissions in the following forms:

* Papers: Technical papers of up to 15 pages that describe original
  results or explain known ideas in new and elegant ways.

* Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for demonstrations of
  tools, libraries, and applications.

* Tutorials: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for in-depth presentations
  about topics of special interest for at least 90 minutes and up to
  180 minutes.

All submissions should be formatted following the ACM SIGS guidelines
and include ACM Computing Classification System 2012 concepts and
terms. Submissions should be uploaded to Easy Chair, at the following
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=els2020

Note: to help us with the review process please indicate the type of
submission by entering either "paper", "demo", or "tutorial" in the
Keywords field.


Programme Chair
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ioanna M. Dimitriou H. - Igalia, Spain/Germany

Local Chair
~~~~~~~~~~~
Nicolas Hafner - Shinmera, Switzerland

Programme Committee
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Andy Wingo - Igalia, Spain/France
Asumu Takikawa - Igalia, Spain/USA
Charlotte Herzeel - IMEC, Intel Exascience Lab, Belgium
Christophe Rhodes - Google, UK
Iréne Durand - Université Bordeaux 1, France
Jim Newton - EPITA Research Lab, France
Kent Pitman - HyperMeta, USA
Leonie Dreschler-Fischer - University of Hamburg, Germany
Marco Heisig - FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Mark Evenson - not.org, Austria
Max Rottenkolber - Interstellar Ventures, Germany
Paulo Matos - Igalia, Spain/Germany
Robert Goldman - SIFT, USA
Robert Strandh - Université Bordeaux 1, France

(more PC members to be announced)

-- 
Resistance is futile. You will be jazzimilated.

Lisp, Jazz, Aïkido: http://www.didierverna.info