Online Lisp Meeting #5

[Michał "phoe" Herda]

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On 16.07.2020 21:31, Michał "phoe" Herda wrote:
>
> Oh goodness, this is amazing news! Would you mind recording a short
> talk about it? I'd love to listen about the story of these dialects
> and the story of freeing their sources, and I'm sure that a big chunk
> of our audience would share my wish.
>
> BR
> ~phoe
>
> On 16.07.2020 21:28, Larry Masinter wrote:
>>
>> We’re working to get Interlisp-D / Medley / Xerox Common Lisp
>> released (with permissive licenses); see
>>
>>  
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/17LkdOmdRtuZmvxS4flAf14Kl7oWmVTuimtyRSebxk4M/edit?usp=sharing
>>
>> for status and plans.
>>
>>  
>>
>> So, on the one hand, software from the past lives again, and a
>> byte-coded Lisp instruction set designed for Lisp (both Interlisp and
>> Common Lisp support).
>>
>>  
>>
>> Larry
>>
>> --
>>
>> https://LarryMasinter.net <https://larrymasinter.net/>
>> https://going-remote.info <https://going-remote.info/>
>>
>>  
>>
>> *From:* Online-Lisp-Meets <online-lisp-meets-bounces at common-lisp.net>
>> *On Behalf Of *Michal "phoe" Herda
>> *Sent:* Thursday, July 16, 2020 11:33 AM
>> *To:* online-lisp-meets at common-lisp.net
>> *Subject:* Online Lisp Meeting #5
>>
>>  
>>
>> Good morning, everyone!
>>
>> We officially start running out of fingers on a single hand, because
>> this Online Lisp Meeting shall be the fifth one.
>>
>> We will have a pair of speakers this time: Bonface Munyoki, a
>> software developer with a keen interest in functional programming,
>> and Robert Strandh of SICL fame.
>>
>> Bonface will talk about Guix Past:
>>
>>     In the field of software development, libraries and tools evolve quickly
>>
>>     to keep up with trends, improvements in hardware or to work around
>>
>>     discovered/ exposed vulnerabilities. People, across diverse fields,
>>
>>     adapt their work by updating the libraries they use to keep up. For
>>
>>     scientists, that normally does not happen. Rarely will people maintain
>>
>>     the code they wrote for a paper they published; instead, it's the
>>
>>     impetus of the reader to reproduce the code based off the paper they
>>
>>     read. Outside academic papers, for long-living projects like
>>
>>     genenetwork¹, it would be desirable to provide a "time-machine" that
>>
>>     enables the user to jump between various past versions. Guix past³ is a
>>
>>     project initiated by Guix-HPC² that aims to provide these old, sometimes
>>
>>     archived libraries to users with the goal of enabling people to
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>>     reproduce old builds of software they used a couple of years ago.
>>
>>      
>>
>>     ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeneNetwork
>>
>>     ² https://hpc.guix.info/
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>>     ³ https://gitlab.inria.fr/guix-hpc/guix-past
>>
>> Robert will continue talking about creating a Common Lisp
>> implementation with part 2 of his talk.
>>
>>     In this series of presentations, we examine different strategies for
>>
>>     creating a Common Lisp implementation, as well as the pros and cons of
>>
>>     each strategy.
>>
>>      
>>
>>     We assume basic knowledge about how a typical modern operating system
>>
>>     (such as Unix) works, and how traditional batch languages (such as C)
>>
>>     are compiled and executed on such a system.  We furthermore assume
>>
>>     medium-level knowledge about Common Lisp.
>>
>>      
>>
>>     In part 2, we sketch a possible compiler that generates byte codes,
>>
>>     and an abstract machine for interpreting such byte codes.
>>
>> As before, the talk will be pre-recorded and played back on Twitch,
>> with the ability to comment on the Twitch chat during playback. The
>> videos will make it onto YouTube. In my evening, I plan on organizing
>> an online drink and chat on Jitsi (I know that I promised you that
>> the last time and didn't deliver - I wholeheartedly apologize.) -
>> let's discuss that on #lispcafe.
>>
>> Date/time/location:
>>
>>   * Date: 22nd July 2020
>>   * Time: 13:00 CEST - https://time.is/en/CEST
>>   * Talk: https://www.twitch.tv/TwitchPlaysCommonLisp
>>   * Hangout: https://chat.heisig.xyz/TwitchPlaysCommonLisp
>>
>> Massive thanks to Marco Heisig for providing the Jitsi instance where
>> we can hang out after the talk. (Ha! No one noticed that I called him
>> Macro in the previous mail. Strangely suitable, anyway.)
>>
>> A mailing list has been created for the purpose of organizing and
>> promoting the online talks. Further announcements will be posted
>> there. See https://mailman.common-lisp.net/listinfo/online-lisp-meets
>>
>> If you'd like to submit something yourself, please feel free to. The
>> slots are almost always open - there's no real queue for these videos.
>>
>> BR and see you!
>> Michał "phoe" Herda
>>
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