Boston Lisp Meeting 2013-08-08T18:00

[Marc Battyani]

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;
>> <http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=32>).
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

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