<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Maybe this would be fun? Use Google Moderator to accumulate questions: <a href="http://j.mp/asdf-q">http://j.mp/asdf-q</a> http://<br><br>Add more, vote up the ones that interest you. <div><br></div><div>On the other hand, maybe Faré would rather not :)</div><div><br></div><div> - ben<br><div><div><br></div><div>On May 23, 2013, at 3:17 AM, Francois-Rene Rideau <<a href="mailto:fare@tunes.org">fare@tunes.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite">Boston Lisp Meeting 2013-05-23T18:30 -- Faré: Tutorial on ASDF3<br><br>When? TONIGHT, Thursday May 23rd 2013 at 6:30pm.<br><br>Where? MIT 32-D463 (Star conference room at the Stata Center).<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=3D32">http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=3D32</a><br><br>Who Speaks? François-René Rideau will give a Tutorial on ASDF3<br><br>I'm sorry about the short notice on this one;<br>communications problems of all kinds have been gumming up the works.<br>Please feel free to spread the word about the meeting<br>via whatever mechanisms are available to you.<br><br>Talk details follow. I hope to see you all there!<br><br>Title: "ASDF 3, or lessons in building portable Common Lisp programs"<br><br>Summary:<br>"ASDF (Another System Definition Facility) has been the de facto standard<br>Common Lisp build system for over ten years.<br>I recently rewrote it completely, several times,<br>all along mostly preserving backwards compatibility.<br>The latest incarnation, ASDF 3, in addition<br>to fixing deep design bugs older than ASDF itself,<br>also includes extensive portability library, UIOP,<br>not to be confused with an existing parallelizing extension, POIU.<br>I will show how to use ASDF, explain the recent improvements, and<br>discuss the challenges of writing portable Common Lisp programs<br>and what that means for the past and future of Lisp."<br><br>About the speaker:<br>"François-René Rideau is a Lisp plumber. On good days, he designs<br>great piping for persistent data, to be used in airline reservation<br>system of ITA (now part of Google). On bad days, he dons his rubber<br>gloves and scrubs the pipes. He also has a blog, Cybernethics, where<br>he writes on liberty, music, programming, and dynamic systems in<br>general."<br><br>I apologize for a last minute notice.<br>The piping system is down.<br><br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>