<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The previous Boston Lisp Meeting on May 28th was a success despite<br>
only 34 participants. Those who didn't come missed two very<br>
interesting talks. I welcome email suggestions for things that will<br>
make you come: maybe shorter sessions with only one speaker? In any<br>
case, many thanks to all those who came.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Could be the light rain, or maybe people are intimidated by the high concentration of elite lisp hackers with their wide-ranging knowledge (just kidding, maybe). I find it pretty inspiring and informative to listen to (and where appropriate, talk with) people whose accomplishments in my favorite programming language are much greater than anything I have done at this point. <br>
<br>The quality of the talks has been extremely high, which I assume is due to the Lisp community in general just being full of people doing interesting things, and that is because of the language being what it is. <br><br>
One thing I was thinking about that would be really interesting would be a talk about Lisp Machines, either by someone who developed some of the software or hardware, or by someone who just knows a lot about them. Even better if it involves a live demonstration of one of the machines.<br>
<br>On a similar note, I'm curious about the various projects to create a kernel in Lisp and a Lisp OS on top of it. I don't know if anyone in the Movitz project lives around here, but if not that then a different Common Lisp or Scheme OS project by someone local would be interesting.<br>
<br>Thanks & looking forward to more great talks,<br><br>Rob<br><br>