From marcoxa at cs.nyu.edu Wed May 20 13:51:06 2009 From: marcoxa at cs.nyu.edu (Marco Antoniotti) Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 15:51:06 +0200 Subject: [xcvb-devel] [ELS 2009] Call for participation Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings.... ************************************************************************ 2nd European Lisp Symposium (ELS 2009) Milan, Italy, May 27-29, 2009 Universita` degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca www.european-lisp-symposium.org ************************************************************************ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ********************** REGISTRATION IS OPEN AT www.european-lisp-symposium.org. Check out the updated program. Scope and Program Highlights: ***************************** The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion of all aspects of the design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp dialects. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate. The European Lisp Symposium 2009 program includes presentations of high quality papers about novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical applications, and educational perspectives, all involving Lisp dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP, Dylan, Clojure, and so on. The European Lisp Symposium will feature the following highlights: - Scott McKay of ITA Software will talk about how Lisp use has evolved in his circannual industry work. - Mark Tarver of Lambda Associates will talk about Qi as a viral mutation of the Lisp DNA. - Mauro Pezze` of University of Milan-Bicocca will host a panel on Programmers' Productivity from a Software Engineering point of view. - Joao Pavao Martins and Ernesto Morgado of SISCOG will talk about the role of LISP in the success of SISCOG - Christophe Rhodes will give an unportable tutorial. - Michele Simionato will give a tutorial on Scheme module system and Scheme libraries portability issues across implementations. Social Events: ************** Friday 29th evening, Conference Banquet Saturday 30th morning, Guided tour to the "Futurismo" Exhibit in the center of Milan; 2009 marks the 100th anniversary of the Futurism Manifesto; stretching it, the harbinger of Lisp 50 years later. Program Chair: ************** * Antonio Leitao, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Local Chair: ************ * Marco Antoniotti, DISCo, Universita`? Milano Bicocca, Italy Program committee: ****************** * Giuseppe Attardi, Universita` di Pisa , Italy * Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Irene Durand, Universite` Bordeaux 1, France * Marc Feeley, Universite` de Montreal, Canada * Ron Garret, Amalgamated Widgets Unlimited, USA * Gregor Kiczales, University of British Columbia, Canada * Scott McKay, ITA Software, Inc., USA * Peter Norvig, Google Inc., USA * Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK * Kent Pitman, HyperMeta, USA * Christian Queinnec, Universite` Pierre et Marie Curie, France * Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK * Robert Strandh, Universite` Bordeaux 1, France * Mark Tarver, Lambda Associates, UK * Didier Verna, EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, France * JonL White, TheGingerIceCreamFactory of Palo Alto, USA * Taiichi Yuasa, Kyoto University, Japan Registration Fees: ****************** * Students EU100, regular EU220. Registration will include the proceedings, coffee breaks, the symposium dinner and other amenities. Accommodation is not included. From fahree at gmail.com Fri May 29 03:26:56 2009 From: fahree at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Far=E9?=) Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 23:26:56 -0400 Subject: [xcvb-devel] xcvb 0.3 in git Message-ID: <653bea160905282026w1337e745p4234c42045868b19@mail.gmail.com> Dear all, I'm proud to announce XCVB 0.3, a complete reimplementation of XCVB. It already works better than the previous v0.1-prototype (except for the missing ASDF backend): * xcvb will now correctly handle multiple build files * xcvb now has a command-line interface * there is now an example Makefile for how to use xcvb (see in test/mock/a/c/) I apologize for the long delay, and the fact that it's still not completely usable. What's missing from a v1.0 (sorry about that): * the many failure modes are totally unhelpful for users who are not wary of XCVB internals. * missing ASDF backend * documentation is still lacking * missing support for data dependencies and generated files * ASDF migration needs to be integrated to the command-line (and maybe extended and debugged) In any case, if some of you are interested in XCVB *and* are not afraid at looking inside, now is a good time to start looking, for the internal structure is probably stable. To test it: edit configure.mk from doc/configure.mk.example make cd test/mock/a/c make xcvb.mk make I'd like to thank Spencer Brody for the initial prototype -- though over 95% of the code has been re-written, the initial prototype was essential in providing a platform to improve from, both in the good ideas that were kept and the issues that it helped reveal. Thanks also to Stas Boukarev for his help with the makefile-backend. 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