[toronto-lisp] 1 May Meetup Aftermath

[Rudolf]

Hey, thanks for showing up to the May meetup (if you did show up that
is). The next official meetup is in June. It looks like we'll switch
to a monthly meetup schedule.

Who showed up:
Justin, Brain C, Ian B, Rudolf, Ben, and two other people whose names
I forgot to take down heh.

Anyway, here are links to various items discussed:

  - Notation as a Tool of Thought
    http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=358899

  - Mosquito Lisp
    Bill Clementson discussed it -> http://bc.tech.coop/blog/061119.html

  - Hedgehog Lisp
    Main website -> http://hedgehog.oliotalo.fi/
    Lemonodor discussed it -> http://lemonodor.com/archives/001086.html

  - Smalltalk books
    Blue book (Language Implementation/Specification) ->
http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook.pdf
    Red book (Interactive Programming Environment) ->
http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/TheInteractiveProgrammingEnv/TheInteractiveProgrammingEnv.pdf
    Green book (Bits of History, Words of Advice) ->
http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BitsOfHistory/BitsOfHistory.pdf

  - Gauche Scheme
    http://practical-scheme.net/gauche/

  - Practical Scheme: Asset-tracking for the production of the Final
Fantasy movie
    http://www.lava.net/~shiro/Private/essay/gdc2002.html

  - Jones Forth
    http://www.annexia.org/forth

  - SRE design by Olin Shivers (S-expression-based notation for
regular expressions)
    http://www.scsh.net/docu/post/sre.html

  - foof's IrRegex (66k of regular expression code)
    http://synthcode.com/scheme/irregex/

  - APL - A Glimpse of Heaven
    http://www.vector.org.uk/archive/v231/legrand.htm

  - LUSH, a C/Lisp hybrid (allows embedded C code)
    Main website -> http://lush.sourceforge.net/
    Mixing C and Lisp code inline ->
http://lush.sourceforge.net/lush-manual/30381be4.html#1.14

  - APROL, a J and Scheme hybrid
    Click through to get the PDF -> http://reddit.com/info/6d16m/comments

  - Meta Math! by Gregory Chaitin
    http://www.amazon.com/Meta-Math-Quest-Gregory-Chaitin/dp/1400077974

  - Lockhart's Lament, criticises the current method of teaching math
    http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_03_08.html

  - ParEdit.el: structured editing of S-expressions
    http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ParEdit

  - NoSQL, the UNIX shell as a 4GL
    http://www.strozzi.it/cgi-bin/CSA/tw7/I/en_US/NoSQL/Home%20Page

  - Representative syntax, ficl parse steps
    http://ficl.sourceforge.net/parsesteps.html

Some of these are only remotely Lisp-related. Am I missing anything?
Rudolf