[toronto-lisp] Meeting Mar 1

[Vish Singh]

I did not make too many notes this time - sorry - but here are a few
of the items discussed:

- Language Agnostic blog, by Leo: http://langnostic.blogspot.com/
- discussion of post "Writing C in Lisp"
- discussion of Hunchentoot web servers with nginx as an intermediary
for serving static content

- discussion of the now-famous RIM rant:
http://blog.jamiemurai.com/2011/02/you-win-rim/
- also, a follow-up post: http://blog.jamiemurai.com/2011/02/rim-rant-follow-up/

- presentation about using Scheme on the iPhone:
http://www.slideshare.net/jlongster/the-scheme-language-using-it-on-the-iphone
- discussion about whether Apple could detect from your compiled
binary if you were sending S-expressions over the network to be
evaluated by an app (which would violate their developer agreement)
- worth noting that, while the above is disallowed by Apple, you could
do it easily within a web-app using Javascript

Vish

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Paul Tarvydas
<tarvydas at visualframeworksinc.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately, I'm well under the weather and won't be attending tonight.
>
> Dave Cooper is interested in skyping in again.  If someone could bring a laptop with a full size screen, Dave could do a skype screen-share and demo his GDL product - which is a very interesting bundled product consisting of Allegro plus a bunch of in-house and 3rd party libraries that creates custom CAD-like engineering environments for various industries (for example, the automotive industry).
>
> Dave's email is: david.cooper at genworks.com .  Let him know if this can be accommodated.
>
> I'm not sure that I heard this factoid mentioned - Dave is a board member of the ALU.  We should be picking his brains on all issues lisp.
>
> He also suggests an interesting list of potential topics:
>
> 1. Give a GDL presentation and demo
>
>  2. Talk about software licensing: commercial, open-source, dual.
>
>  3. ILC, ECLM, other larger Lisp meetings (who would attend and why)
>
>  4. Common Lisp Foundation, ALU, and funding issues.
>
>  5. Library initiatives (Quicklisp, LibCL, Lispbox, and similar).
>
>
> Please post a summary of the meeting for those of us too sick to show up :-).
>
> pt
>
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