Online Lisp Meeting #5

[Michał "phoe" Herda]

The videos are on YouTube now! Thanks for attending.

https://youtu.be/KaUkiLVSObw - Creating a Common Lisp implementation
(Part 2)

https://youtu.be/hl0ANwOezw0 - Guix Past

See you soon, and let me know what you'd like to talk about during the
next meetings!
~phoe

On 16.07.2020 15:53, Michał "phoe" Herda wrote:
>
> 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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