Lisp in Munich

Welcome to the Lisp User Group in Munich, Germany.

If you are fond of languages in the Lisp family and live in or close to Munich, we're the perfect place to find fellow Lispers.

If you heard about the Lisp language and now are curious about it, just drop by and find people who love to talk about what makes Lisp so great, or why Lisp and all other programming languages suck!

Common Lisp, Scheme, ...

Although the majority of people in the group thinks that "Buddha is big, has hairy armpits, and laughs" (i.e. uses Common Lisp), we do not discriminate against those who live up with tiny standards (Scheme), or no standard at all (e.g. Clojure).

Communication

Coordination takes place via the munich-lisp mailinglist, be sure to subscribe so that you won't miss our meetings. It is quite low-traffic and the archive is public.

Meetings

To give purpose to the meetings, each meeting is supposed to be initiated by an informal, short talk. That's your perfect opportunity to show off what you recently have done in Lisp!

After the talk we likely have a beer, or two, in some pub.

Note that although we are in Germany, the talks and much of the discussion is actually in English, so don't hesitate to bring your english-speaking friends along. If you do not feel savy speaking English, this is no problem as most of the people are actually German, happy to talk to you in Deutsch. :-)

Next meeting

Any next meetings planned ?

Location

The LMU describes how to get there.

Discussion of new Location

[1] Old Place, Tivolistr., see above

[0] Gene Center, Feodor-Lynen-Str. 25 http://www.lmb.uni-muenchen.de/mainframes/genecenter/content3.htm http://www.openstreetmap.de/karte.html?zoom=17&lat=48.11271&lon=11.46492&layers=0B

[3] Physics Departement, Theresienstr. http://www.openstreetmap.de/karte.html?zoom=16&lat=48.14801&lon=11.57309&layers=B0

[1] CCC, Balanstr. 166 http://www.openstreetmap.de/karte.html?zoom=17&lat=48.11271&lon=11.46492&layers=0B (I haven't discussed this with the ccc people yet, so I'm not 100% sure if we can do it there. There is also not that much space, maybe for 8 people)



Past meetings

24. April 2009, Marek Kubica: Why Scheme rocks

27. January 2009, Jim Newton presented SKILL, a Lisp dialect developed and used by Cadence Design Systems

3. December 2008, Tobias Rittweiler gave a talk about SLIME (slides available).

These are not all, but there was a long, long break since the earlier meetings, so this user group can be considered reborn. We hope that this time it'll last, just like the Python user group which also needed a second try to get moving.

Future meeting topics

Add yourself if you've got some topic to give a short talk about. We can then decide after each meeting what the topic of the next meeting will be.

TCR:

The Alexandria library is meant to contain functions that are needed on a regular basis, and that could be thought of being incorporated into a revision of the standard.

LLVM, the Low-Level Virtual Machine. Very brief introduction. It's not about Lisp per se, but about compiler technology in general.

Lorenz Mösenlechner:

Lisp & Lego Mindstorms

Matthias Benkard:

Marek Kubica:

A look on Clojure



rudybot: an IRC bot in Scheme

Jim Newton

CLOS Common Lisp Perspective on Object Oriented Programming

Charlotte Herzeel

Reusuable building blocks for software transactional memory (pdf)

Martin Loetzsch

Understanding the Dynamics of Complex Lisp Programs (excursions in lisp based web applications) pdf

A graphical terminal for Lisp gtfl

Christoph Senjak

A short introduction to Lispbuilder-SDL

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