Another Meeting?

[Jonathan Godbout]

I updated boston-lisp: https://common-lisp.net/project/boston-lisp/


On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 2:58 PM Arthur Smyles <atsmyles at verizon.net> wrote:

> Thank you for the introduction Rahul!
>
> Besides the meetup page, we are on YouTube @
> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv33UlfX5S4PKxozGwUY_pA
>
> We will be posting to YouTube bi-weekly: A new talk on the second Tuesday
> of the month, and a previous talk on the second Tuesday after.
>
> and you can find the rest of our sites here: http://lisp.nyc/connect
>
> If anybody from your group would like to give a past talk that the NYC
> Lisp community has missed, I'd be happy to host it.
>
> Arthur
> arthur at lispnyc.org
>
> On 10/12/20 12:50 PM, Rahul Jain wrote:
>
> (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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