Another Meeting?

[Rahul Jain]

(Adding Arthur Smyles to the thread since he is the current organizer of
LispNYC.)

For whatever it's worth, we are using Jitsi for LispNYC, both presentations
and social hang-outs. The presentations are also being simulcast to
YouTube. (If you'd like to drop by our talk tomorrow, the details are at
https://www.meetup.com/LispNYC/events/270506803/
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.meetup.com/LispNYC/events/270506803/&sa=D&source=calendar&usd=2&usg=AOvVaw2vW8SdO2zQ1pd6dwy3ZwdU>
)

It might also be worth considering combining the groups (or separating on a
different axis other than geographical while we are all interacting
virtually). Might also be worth having an ongoing US-East virtual Lisp
group that meets every couple months post-pandemic.

On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 7:30 PM Alex Plotnick <shrike at netaxs.com> wrote:

> At Fri, 09 Oct 2020 15:04:37 -0600, Jonathan Godbout said:
>
> > Are people interested in having a meeting?
>
> Yes, definitely!
>
> > Can anyone give a talk?
>
> I can, though it wouldn't strictly be about Lisp. My employer (osohq.com)
> has been developing a logic programming language (i.e., a Prolog dialect)
> focused on authorization problems, and I think both the language and its
> implementation might be of interest. We've written an embeddable
> interpreter
> in Rust that communicates via FFI to a host or application language
> such as (currently) Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Java, or Rust. It has
> some features inspired by Common Lisp (e.g., multiple dispatch),
> but mostly it's a logic language with unification & backtracking.
> Its distinguishing feature is its ability to write rules over objects
> and types from the host language; e.g., whatever models an application
> uses natively. We think this is useful in certain complex authorization
> contexts, and perhaps more broadly.
>
> I would in particular love to get feedback from a Lisp crowd on the
> language design, syntax, etc. We tried to give it an updated feel,
> but still be recognizably Prolog, and just a little Lispy. Lisp
> folks tend to have pretty high standards and strong opinions on
> all kinds of languages, so it'd be great to hear what people think.
>
> > I'd be willing to give a lightning talk about cl-protobufs.
>
> +1
>
> > We can use Zoom instead of hangouts...
>
> +1 from me on reliability and ease of use, though I totally understand
> issues people may have with it. Jitsi's probably fine, though I have
> not ever used it.
>
>         -- Alex
>
>
>
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