[boston-lisp-organizers] Re: query re: the boston lisp meetings/conferences

[Elf]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Faré wrote:

> I can wait for the topic, as long as I can announce it one month in advance.
>
> That said, I'm not certain what you mean by gradual type checking. If
> it's the same as the "soft typing" of Chez Scheme or CMUCL/SBCL, i.e.
> "statically typed if you can prove it, fall back to dynamic if you
> can't", then I kind of have the feeling that the general principle is
> already well understood by the community -- unless you're going to
> talk specifically about a cool advanced analysis technique, such as
> those produced by Olin Shivers and his students. That could make a
> nice 50' or longer talk, but it's a hard thing to talk about.

gradual type checking is a hybrid method conceived by siek and taha.  im 
learning about it now, its quite interesting.  i dont know if i could give
a talk on it, yet.  its something that ivan raikov and i were discussing
earlier today.

>
> CheneyMTA could make a cool 25' talk, or a nice 50' one if given
> deeper background or compared to other techniques.

ive started putting together notes, so ill let you know about it.  i was going
to talk on it specifically as it applies to chicken, and some interesting
properties and places to go with it.


>

> BTW, after talking to potential people, I've decided that the talk
> formats would be better 50'+Q&A for normal, 25'+Q&A for short, and
> 90'+Q&A for long. Indeed, 50'+Q&A seems to be the standard length for
> which those participating in academic conferences have already
> prepared speeches or for which they will be able to reuse new
> speeches.
>

that makes good sense.  i havent yet given any academic talks (well, besides
a crap one about FUNK (functional fuzzer in scheme) to get my current 
(hopefully soon to be previous) job, which would be WAY under the level of 
people going to the lisp users group), so i have nothing prepared in advance.
i should be able to make the next talk if my plane isnt running late ... ill
be in milwaukee that weekend visiting my grandfather to take some pressure off
my parents.

-elf

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>
> On 23/03/2008, Elf <elf at ephemeral.net> wrote:
>>
>>  question about my talk for the LUG.  do you need a topic right now or can it
>>  wait?  we're starting to look into something really kinda cool (gradual
>>  type checking - static/dynamic hybrid) so i may want to talk on that instead
>>  of (or in addition to) cheneymta, or i can give two separate talks if youd
>>  like?  we're doing some interesting redesigns in the chicken world right now
>>  so theres lots of fun theoretical things to talk about.
>