March 2009 - MSLUG - mailman.iro.umontreal.ca

Reminder: MSLUG Meeting Tonight at 7pm -- The Design of VLAM
by Guillaume Germain 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hi everybody, this is a reminder for the meeting of the MSLUG taking place tonight. What: Montreal Scheme/Lisp User Group Meeting -- The Design of VLAM Compyle : a tower of languages from Python to C++ using Scheme When: *Thursday* March 12th 7pm Where: Room 3195, André-Aisenstadt Building, Université de Montréal, 2920 chemin de la Tour (you can find a plan of the UdeM campus here: http://www.stcum.qc.ca/metro/images/c56.pdf) Marc-Antoine Desroches will give a presentation about the design choices made while building VLAM Compyle, a just-in-time compiler for Python. Benefits and challenges associated with a language-based design will be discussed. http://www.vlam.ca/compyle See you there, Guillaume

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Job openings for Scheme programmers in Montreal
by Robert Lizée 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

We are currently finishing the development of a game called "QuantZ" that has been mostly written in Scheme using Gambit-C. A video of the game can be seen at www.gamerizon.com. The current version of the game runs on Windows and Mac OS. In the short term, we are looking for 2 developers: a game programmer with good optimization skills and a Scheme programmer with good understanding of compiling techniques to work on the iPhone version and smaller versions of the game in Flash, Java and BREW. For these versions, the objective would be to reuse/adapt parts of the current code base, in order to gradually implement a system on which we could develop games on many platforms at once using the same code base. You can contact me at robert(a)gamerizon.com

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Next MSLUG Meeting: Thursday March 12th at 7pm -- The Design of VLAM
by Guillaume Germain 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Hi everybody, this is an announce for the next meeting of the MSLUG. What: Montreal Scheme/Lisp User Group Meeting -- The Design of VLAM Compyle : a tower of languages from Python to C++ using Scheme When: *Thursday* March 12th 7pm Where: Room 3195, André-Aisenstadt Building, Université de Montréal, 2920 chemin de la Tour (you can find a plan of the UdeM campus here: http://www.stcum.qc.ca/metro/images/c56.pdf) Marc-Antoine Desroches will give a presentation about the design choices made while building VLAM Compyle, a just-in-time compiler for Python. Benefits and challenges associated with a language-based design will be discussed. http://www.vlam.ca/compyle Hopefully, people from the Python community will join us, which should make for fun and interesting discussions at the pub :) Everybody is welcome, admission is free, pants are mandatory. Guillaume

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