[MSLUG] MSLUG Meeting December 5th 2007 7pm -- Commercial Users of Scheme and Lisp
Guillaume Germain
guillaume.germain at gmail.com
Fri Nov 30 22:08:40 EST 2007
Greetings,
this is the official announce for the next meeting of the MSLUG.
What: Montreal Scheme/Lisp User Group Meeting
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)
When: December 5th 2007 at 7pm
We will have the chance to hear 4 different talks, of around 15 to 20
minutes each, about using Scheme and Lisp in a commercial setting.
After the talks, those of us who feel so inclined will go down to a
nearby pub to have a beer and continue the discussion.
The meeting is open to everyone, feel free to invite friends and co-workers!
See you next Wednesday,
Guillaume
* Talks Program *
1- Houman Zolfaghari : Using scheme in the industry: a possibly
powerful but difficult choice
Having used scheme/lisp for more than 12 years in the industry for
some large scale projects, I will talk a bout my experience and my
latest considerations and conclusions.
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2- Dominique Boucher : Scheme in the enterprise: pitfalls to avoid
In this short presentation, I will share my experience introducing
Scheme in an industrial setting. I will mainly focus on how to avoid
some common pitfalls.
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3- Daniel Villeneuve & Alain Marcotte : Three goals, 2 companies, 1 ...
Overview of 3 utilizations of scheme in two different companies where
scheme is part of delivered products. A glance at the architecture
and environment for those products.
Survol de 3 utilisations de scheme à travers 2 entreprises:
Micro-Intel (Cogniscience) et ADOPT (Kronos). Survol de
l'environnement et architecture où scheme fait partie des produits
livrés.
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4- Guillaume Cartier :
Overview of the Chyma Scheduler, a rule-based scheduler for hospitals
written for IsaiX Technologies using JazzScheme under its new open
source license.
I will also discuss how it has been possible for us on various
occasions to help clients with Lisp based solutions when the hurt was
considerable and Lisp was seen as the only doctor with potent enough
medicine.
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