Boston Lisp Meeting 2013-08-08T18:00

[Kent Pitman]

Or you could Tweet using #BostonLisp to communicate before or during the
event.

 

I don't know if I'll be there or not tomorrow, but sometimes I've been away
from my email and have wished there were a simple public way to find out
what's up in case I wanted to drop in last minute.  Twitter would offer one
such way.

 

From: Marc Battyani [mailto:marc.battyani at fractalconcept.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 4:07 PM
To: Alex Plotnick
Cc: boston-lisp at common-lisp.net
Subject: Re: Boston Lisp Meeting 2013-08-08T18:00

 

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> <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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