Re: Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Wednesday June 25th 2008, 6pm at NEU Shillman Hall Room 135

rob levy wrote:
>     The previous Boston Lisp Meeting on May 28th was a success despite
>     only 34 participants. Those who didn't come missed two very
>     interesting talks. I welcome email suggestions for things that will
>     make you come: maybe shorter sessions with only one speaker? In any
>     case, many thanks to all those who came.
> 
> Could be the light rain, or maybe people are intimidated by the high 
> concentration of elite lisp hackers with their wide-ranging knowledge 
> (just kidding, maybe).  I find it pretty inspiring and informative to 
> listen to (and where appropriate, talk with) people whose 
> accomplishments in my favorite programming language are much greater 
> than anything I have done at this point. 

Yeah, I don't know that anything should be changed. I missed the last meeting (much to my chagrin) 
only because I was out of town on vacation.

> One thing I was thinking about that would be really interesting would be 
> a talk about Lisp Machines, either by someone who developed some of the 
> software or hardware, or by someone who just knows a lot about them.  
> Even better if it involves a live demonstration of one of the machines.

There are a lot of people in the area who are qualified to speak about Lisp Machines. It's something 
I would like to hear about as well. I will make a few requests.

> On a similar note, I'm curious about the various projects to create a 
> kernel in Lisp and a Lisp OS on top of it.  I don't know if anyone in 
> the Movitz project lives around here, but if not that then a different 
> Common Lisp or Scheme OS project by someone local would be interesting.

The author of the SBCL-OS project has been to some of the meetings. Maybe he'll treat us to a talk 
at some point :)

> Thanks & looking forward to more great talks,

Me too!