Boston Lisp Meeting 2013-08-08T18:00

[Marc Battyani]

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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