Re: Boston Lisp Meeting 2013-05-23T18:30 THIS THURSDAY! Faré: Tutorial on ASDF3

[Ben Hyde]

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On the other hand, maybe Faré would rather not :)

 - ben

On May 23, 2013, at 3:17 AM, Francois-Rene Rideau <fare at tunes.org> wrote:
> Boston Lisp Meeting 2013-05-23T18:30 -- Faré: Tutorial on ASDF3
> 
> When? TONIGHT, Thursday May 23rd 2013 at 6:30pm.
> 
> Where? MIT 32-D463 (Star conference room at the Stata Center).
> 	http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=3D32
> 
> Who Speaks? François-René Rideau will give a Tutorial on ASDF3
> 
> I'm sorry about the short notice on this one;
> communications problems of all kinds have been gumming up the works.
> Please feel free to spread the word about the meeting
> via whatever mechanisms are available to you.
> 
> Talk details follow. I hope to see you all there!
> 
> Title: "ASDF 3, or lessons in building portable Common Lisp programs"
> 
> Summary:
> "ASDF (Another System Definition Facility) has been the de facto standard
> Common Lisp build system for over ten years.
> I recently rewrote it completely, several times,
> all along mostly preserving backwards compatibility.
> The latest incarnation, ASDF 3, in addition
> to fixing deep design bugs older than ASDF itself,
> also includes extensive portability library, UIOP,
> not to be confused with an existing parallelizing extension, POIU.
> I will show how to use ASDF, explain the recent improvements, and
> discuss the challenges of writing portable Common Lisp programs
> and what that means for the past and future of Lisp."
> 
> About the speaker:
> "François-René Rideau is a Lisp plumber. On good days, he designs
> great piping for persistent data, to be used in airline reservation
> system of ITA (now part of Google). On bad days, he dons his rubber
> gloves and scrubs the pipes. He also has a blog, Cybernethics, where
> he writes on liberty, music, programming, and dynamic systems in
> general."
> 
> I apologize for a last minute notice.
> The piping system is down.
> 

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