[chicago-lisp] Hello

[Peter Hua]

Jesse,

SISC looks really cool.  I've been getting into Scheme lately using Kawa,
and the syntax is much cleaner than that of Lisp.

Cheers,
Peter

On 3/30/06, Jesse Bouwman <jesse.bouwman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> No meetings have taken place as far as I know. The closest thing that I
> can offer is that I wrote to a few friends, some of whom receive this
> list, and managed a 2-person meeting last Friday, where I demonstrated a
> SISC interpreter running as an Eclipse plugin, used for AST-level Java
> code generation.  I'd be happy to repeat this demo some time.
>
> This is not exactly pertinent to 'lisp' in the sense that I've been
> accustomed to see it and perhaps that the name of this list suggests--in
> the guise of *CL, in any case either with CL trappings or high awareness
> of technical differentalia--but more to the lisp language family and
> importantly its ecology.   Perhaps the charter of this list gives the
> impression of too narrow a focus?  Programmers that I know always have
> some side project in haskell, ml, or some other.  I'd like to hear from
> someone who has used Haskell for a substantial project, especially one
> that interfaces well with others.
>
> Here's a thing: it's fun to take apart a problem in Scheme--more
> specifically easy to refine one into essential relationships. I often
> follow by casting the result into whatever environment instigated it.
> The question arises, what is a good way to embed functional code in
> imperative?  Include the interpreter? To use untyped cons structures, or
> standard 'collection' classes?  I have taken a weak path here, with Java
> linked lists, occasional clone()ing, and hiding functionally-unsafe code
> with visibility controls, and I'd be curious to hear other opinions.
>
> Regards,
> Jesse Bouwman
>
> p.s.
>
> Last Friday's meeting was at 5:30 PM, at a bar at 1150 N. Damen, Chicago
> IL 60622, and I don't see a reason not to make it a standing engagement,
> at least until some other arrangement suggests itself?
>
>
>
> Peter Hua wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > After seeing all the recent fun had by lispvan, I decided to join this
> > list.  Are there any upcoming meetings or events in the works?
> > As a born-again Lisper, I would be curious to see what is going on in
> the
> > Lisp world.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Peter
> >
> >
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