On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:02:13AM -0400, Marc Feeley wrote:
Dear MSLUGers, we haven't had a meeting in a long time and I am hoping we can start having regular meetings again, say once every 2 months.
- Please reply to this message if you are interested in having a meeting in November (I propose Thursday November 10 at 7 PM, but if you would prefer another date then please make suggestions)
I'd prefer *not* to have it on Tuesday or Thursday evenings, because that conflicts with French classes. But I can skip a French class now and then if necessary.
- We need speakers! If you are working with Scheme/Lisp or related language (e.g. JavaScript), then please consider giving a presentation. Don't be shy... we all have a story to tell. If no one comes forward, then I can prepare a talk on the Gambit REPL app for iPhone. I can also ask my students to present some of the work we are doing on the compilation of JavaScript.
I have no idea if this is of interest:
I threw together a strongly-typed, garbage-collected concatenative (is that what they call it now (i.e., stack-based like Forth)?) language a while ago. It's not a clean implementation; it's not a usable language; it was just a miniproject to prove it could be done. Interesting features are -- joint unions instead of disjoint unions in the type system -- the garbage collector garbage-collects its own code. Of course, it wouldn't delete itself because if it's executing, it's obviously still accessible, but otherwise it treats its own code no differently from anything else. -- It was intended to be somewhat self-hosting, but it isn't there yet, and will probably never be. At most, I may use the ideas in another system someday, perhaps in a low-level JIT code-generation tool for other languages.
I could talk about it on my back porch over beers at a moment's notice, but a formal talk is another thing I haven't given one in ages, and I'm out of touch with current presentation technology. I'd prefer not to prepare a talk for November, the month of nanowrimo, (but I suppose I could, with some technical coaching and a dress rehearsal -- but that's possibly better done before or after a previous meeting).
-- hendrik
- You can also propose to me other people who you think might give an interesting presentation. I'll do the arm twisting!
Marc
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