Previous and Future Meetings

[Jonathan Godbout]

Sorry can we do October 24th? October 17th I'll probably be in Canada...

On Sat, Sep 28, 2019, 11:18 AM Faré <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:

> My apologies for late replies. Let's do October 17th.
>
> What I lost and gained going from Lisp to OCaml
>
> This talk will discuss my experience going from Lisp to OCaml: where
> did the types help? where did they get in the way? What kind of
> metaprogramming do I miss? What kind of metaprogramming is still
> possible? The techniques I will use as examples will be specific to a
> mostly-pure-functional programming model for distributed programming
> with monotonic data structures. But the ideas at stake are more widely
> applicable.
>
> François-René Rideau is a long-time Lisper and notably rewrote
> multiple times and maintained for a decade the ASDF build system for
> Common Lisp. Formerly Senior Engineer at ITA Software, he also worked
> at Google and Bridgewater, and is now Co-Founder and CEO of a Startup
> that publishes a language for Blockchain Decentralized Applications
> (DApps), Mutual Knowledge Systems < https://mukn.io/ >
>
> —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics•
> http://fare.tunes.org
> The two most common errors in this country are that our politicians are
> dumb
> and that they mean well.  — J.R. "Bob" Dobbs
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 10:39 PM Jonathan Godbout <jgodbou at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, we're looking at October, either 5th or 17th (but I still must find
> out when I'll be away so we'll have a definite date shortly).
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 6:34 PM masataro <guicho2.71828 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Any follow up on this? (probably canceled ... rainy day)
> >>
> >> On 2019/08/20 15:06, Jonathan Godbout wrote:
> >> > How does the end of September 26th sound for everyone?
> >> > Make Thursdays around 7 the default?
> >> >
> >> > On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 1:28 PM Faré <fahree at gmail.com
> >> > <mailto:fahree at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >     Dear Jonathan and Boston Lispers,
> >> >
> >> >     if you're looking for speakers, I volunteer to give a variant of
> my
> >> >     LambdaConf 2019 speech "Building Distributed Applications in
> OCaml",
> >> >     on what I gained and what I lost by going from Lisp to OCaml.
> >> >
> >> >     I am available in the second halves of September and October, and
> >> >     probably the first halves of November and December.
> >> >
> >> >     —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics•
> >> >     http://fare.tunes.org
> >> >     The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of
> >> >     wonder. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >     On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 11:11 PM Jonathan Godbout <
> jgodbou at gmail.com
> >> >     <mailto:jgodbou at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >> >      >
> >> >      > Thank you Masataro for your great talk Thursday.
> >> >      > You can find a link to his paper and his Github account in the
> >> >     Past Meetings page:
> >> >      > https://common-lisp.net/project/boston-lisp/past-meetings.html
> >> >      >
> >> >      > If you have a talk you would like to give please send a message
> >> >     or carrier pigeon!
> >> >
> >>
> >> --
> >> Masataro Asai
> >>
> >> MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
> >> IBM Research AI
> >>
>
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