Online Lisp Meeting #5

[Michał "phoe" Herda]

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
> reproduce old builds of software they used a couple of years ago.
>
> ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeneNetwork
> ² https://hpc.guix.info/
> 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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