[boston-lisp] 2012-04-19: Boston Lisp Dinner

[Geoffrey S. Knauth]

I am with you in spirit.  Wish I could come, but with trips (from to Williamsport PA) to DC on Tuesday, Philly yesterday, and Ohio tomorrow, I can't make a trip to Boston today, because I have an important meeting at work.

Yesterday evening I met ESR for the first time, at a Philly JUG meeting.  I have known RMS for 28 years, but I had never met ESR.  Anyway, one of the things he said was that Lisp is still a language in his head that has never been displaced ("in its adhesive power to your brain") by any other language in terms of its power.  Once, a long time ago, as a programmer capable in two languages he loved, APL and Lisp, he tried to write a Lisp interpreter in APL, and an APL interpreter in Lisp.  He said, "You can guess which won."

However he also said his current favorite language is Python, because when he writes programs in Python, six months later he can read the code and understand what it does, and that is most important to him.

Geoff

On Apr 18, 2012, at 19:56 , Faré wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:14, Faré <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Let's meet next Thursday at 6pm for a chinese dinner amongst Lispers
>> and friends,
>> at Mary Chung in Central Square, Cambridge MA, for a Boston Lisp dinner.
>> 
>> Please email me or send me a text message at 617 575 9012 to confirm
>> you're coming so I can reserve tables.
>> 
> If you're not among the fourteen people who have just received my
> confirmation email,
> then I haven't counted you for our dinner tomorrow, but it is still
> time to contact me.
> 
> If I counted you but you can't come, it's also still time to tell me
> so I don't hold a seat in vain.
> 
> See you tomorrow!
> 
> Next month, a real Lisp Meeting at MIT, with Xach speaking about
> Quicklisp, on 2012-05-17.
> 
> —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org
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> and bureaucracies above society. They choose to ignore that when they are not
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> 
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