[chicago-lisp] Thoughts on functional and syntax free languages

[Norbert Wojtowicz]

Hello John and everyone else I may or may not know.

> John mentioned recieving 5 backloged messages.  I wrote the original
> message on sunday the 10th at 3:42pm.  When did everyone recieve it?

I've been having mail trouble recently on my end, so I can't be very objective 
about this. 

> Ok, now I have some issues, like:
> Tech coffie is to early to get up
> I'm in the northwest suburbs  (is anyone else in the suburbs, or is
> *everyone* in the city?)

Same. Well, technically I'm in the city but I can walk across the street to 
Elmwood Park / Franklin Park.

> I propose that we set up a IRC channel, (probably #chicago-lisp on
> freenet), and have IRC meetings at the same time as the code sprints.
> The idea would be to log in from the code sprint if you can make it,
> or just log in from home if your lazy.

+1. Sometimes I just have fairly simple questions that stump me for an hour 
and there's also the problem of being flamed/ignored on #lisp. :-)

> Also, I like the idea of makeing the code sprints the focal point for
> the lisp get togethers (especially since I can rarely make saturdays).
>  I'd propose that we make the code sprint/irc meetings the "get
> together time", and just do the LUG when we have a actual
> presentation?

Hopefully there can be a similar psychology effect as TechCoffee: people 
pushed and prodded to go finish their projects are more likely to get things 
done than a biweekly general meet-up (not that there is anything wrong with 
the LUG meetings; just doesn't seem to share the same goals). Additionally, 
probably a lot of what we can learn from our peers is through time spent 
hacking together on problems. That is to say, a lot of epiphany "ah-ha!" 
moments probably can't be translated to a 15 minute presentation.

Cheers!
- Norbert

PS. Is there a meeting tomorrow night and, if so, is it at the same cafe as 
listed earlier?