[boston-lisp-organizers] Re: Boston Lisp Meeting

[Faré]

Dear Prof. Abelson,

because the audience is made of Lisp programmers doesn't mean every
talk has to be about programming languages as such. You could talk
about Teaching or Amorphous Computing - both of which have
implications about language design that the audience can figure out by
themselves once communicated the basic insights.

I indeed already contacted Gerry Sussman indeed, Jonathan Bachrach and
Jonathan Rees (and many other potential speakers).

Thanks a lot for your prompt reply!

[ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ]



On 22/03/2008, Hal Abelson <hal at mit.edu> wrote:
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>  I don't have much to say about languages.  But you ought to aks Gerry
>  Sussman (if you haven't already).  He's working on some really
>  exciting stuff.
>
>  = Hal
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>  In reply to the message:
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>     Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:44:15 -0400
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>     From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Far=E9?=" <fahree at gmail.com>
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>     Dear Hal,
>
>     I'm co-organizing a monthly Boston Lisp Meeting, and I would be
>     honored to have you speak there on any topic of your choosing. It
>     doesn't have to be about Lisp stricto sensu, but it probably has to be
>     about programming programming languages in general. See the call for
>     speakers below:
>       http://fare.livejournal.com/120393.html
>
>     We'll be usually meeting on the last Monday of every month at 6pm, but
>     we're flexible on that and any date or time that suits you should be
>     fine. I'd be delighted if you could give a 45' speech followed by
>     questions.
>
>     The meeting would probably be held either at ITA Software or at MIT
>     (depending on various factors), and would be audio- and/or video-
>     taped and published online, together with any accompanying material
>     (or URLs) you'd wish to share.
>
>     [ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ]
>     The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can
>     bribe the people with their own money. -- Alexis de Tocqueville