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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>We’re working to get Interlisp-D / Medley / Xerox Common Lisp released (with permissive licenses); see <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/17LkdOmdRtuZmvxS4flAf14Kl7oWmVTuimtyRSebxk4M/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/document/d/17LkdOmdRtuZmvxS4flAf14Kl7oWmVTuimtyRSebxk4M/edit?usp=sharing</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>for status and plans.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Larry<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>--<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a href="https://larrymasinter.net/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>https://LarryMasinter.net</span></a> <a href="https://going-remote.info/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>https://going-remote.info</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Online-Lisp-Meets <online-lisp-meets-bounces@common-lisp.net> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Michal "phoe" Herda<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 16, 2020 11:33 AM<br><b>To:</b> online-lisp-meets@common-lisp.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Online Lisp Meeting #5<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Good morning, everyone! <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p>We officially start running out of fingers on a single hand, because this Online Lisp Meeting shall be the fifth one.<o:p></o:p></p><p>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p>Bonface will talk about Guix Past:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><pre>In the field of software development, libraries and tools evolve quickly<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>to keep up with trends, improvements in hardware or to work around<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>discovered/ exposed vulnerabilities. People, across diverse fields,<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>adapt their work by updating the libraries they use to keep up. For<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>scientists, that normally does not happen. Rarely will people maintain<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>the code they wrote for a paper they published; instead, it's the<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>impetus of the reader to reproduce the code based off the paper they<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>read. Outside academic papers, for long-living projects like<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>genenetwork¹, it would be desirable to provide a "time-machine" that<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>enables the user to jump between various past versions. Guix past³ is a<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>project initiated by Guix-HPC² that aims to provide these old, sometimes<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>archived libraries to users with the goal of enabling people to<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>reproduce old builds of software they used a couple of years ago.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>¹ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeneNetwork">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeneNetwork</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>² <a href="https://hpc.guix.info/">https://hpc.guix.info/</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>³ <a href="https://gitlab.inria.fr/guix-hpc/guix-past">https://gitlab.inria.fr/guix-hpc/guix-past</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal>Robert will continue talking about creating a Common Lisp implementation with part 2 of his talk.<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><pre>In this series of presentations, we examine different strategies for<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>creating a Common Lisp implementation, as well as the pros and cons of<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>each strategy.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>We assume basic knowledge about how a typical modern operating system<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>(such as Unix) works, and how traditional batch languages (such as C)<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>are compiled and executed on such a system. We furthermore assume<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>medium-level knowledge about Common Lisp.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>In part 2, we sketch a possible compiler that generates byte codes,<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>and an abstract machine for interpreting such byte codes.<o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p>Date/time/location:<o:p></o:p></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Date: 22nd July 2020<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Time: 13:00 CEST - <a href="https://time.is/en/CEST">https://time.is/en/CEST</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Talk: <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/TwitchPlaysCommonLisp">https://www.twitch.tv/TwitchPlaysCommonLisp</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Hangout: <a href="https://chat.heisig.xyz/TwitchPlaysCommonLisp">https://chat.heisig.xyz/TwitchPlaysCommonLisp</a><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal>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.)<br><br>A mailing list has been created for the purpose of organizing and promoting the online talks. Further announcements will be posted there. See <a href="https://mailman.common-lisp.net/listinfo/online-lisp-meets">https://mailman.common-lisp.net/listinfo/online-lisp-meets</a><o:p></o:p></p><p>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>BR and see you!<br>Michał "phoe" Herda <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>