From: ·········@lxny.org
Subject: NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 13 May 2003 Lisp NYC Meeting and Wednesday 21 May 2003 Lisp Outreach at NYLUG
Date:
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On Tuesday 13 May 2003 Lisp NYC will meet in the standard bar. Lisp NYC is
a big tent organization. Teetotalers and moderationists welcome! Of
course, Hard Shell Total-Immersion Lambadists will find a Bottomless Barrel
of Parentheses at the door.
And there is a persistent rumor that on Wednesday 21 May 2003, a monstrous
rough beast, larger and shaggier than any focus-group-stultified darling of
the mass media, will slouch round MidTown New York City. Some say the
Beast has business with IBM.
Official Lisp NYC notice just below. Under this official notice is a post
without crypto-signature that has been circulated on several score mailing
lists. The affected lists vary widely in both degree of propriety and
measure of versimilitude.
Subscriber! Read, Study, and Decide!
Jay Sulzberger <·········@lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org
<blockquote
from="official LISPNYC announcement"
what="LC Meeting TINLC">
---------- Forwarded message ----------
To: ·····@lispnyc.org" <····@lispnyc.org>
Subject: [Lisp] May meeting announcement, 13 May 7pm
It is my pleasure to announce our meeting at "Time Out" on May/13/2003 at 7pm. The meeting will run for about an hour and then we will go to the bar. It is down stairs.
Here are the directions:
The deets:
Name: Time Out
Location: Amsterdam between 76th and 77th, east side of street, between
River (Vietnamese and also good food) and another bar/restaurant (name
forgotten, also good food,drink).
getting there:
-- by car, 79th street exit from west side highway, down west end ave or
broadway to 76th, turn left and one or two blocks to Amsterdam.
-- by subway, 1-2-3-9 (the red line) to 72nd or 79th and Broadway. From
72nd, walk up Amsterdam (not Broadway). Amsterdam and Broadway cross at
72nd. From 79th, walk east one long block to Amsterdam and turn right/south.
</blockquote>
<blockquote
from="claimed-to-be-official NYLUG announcement"
what="Important Lisp Meeting NYC 21 May 2003">
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Reply-To: ··············@nylug.org
Subject: [nylug-announce] NY Linux Users Grp. 21 May Meeting: Lisp,
A Fresh Look
May 21st, 2003
Wednesday
6:30pm-8:00pm
IBM Headquarters Building
590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street
9th Floor, home to the IBM Linux Center of Competency
** RSVP Instructions **
Unless you have already rsvp'ed for a prior meeting, everyone
should RSVP to attend. http://rsvp.nylug.org
Check in with photo ID at the lobby for badge and room number.
** Stammtisch **
Note the current location of Stammtisch. See below for details.
Heow Eide-Goodman (LispNYC.org)
-on-
Lisp, A Fresh Look
Lisp is the programming language evolving from 1950s computer science
work by John McCarthy, one of the pioneers in computer artificial
intelligence. Over the course of time Lisp has evolved many variants,
among them Common Lisp, Scheme, even the venerable Emacs editor churns
along powered by Elisp. Evidently, and as affirmed by this month's
speaker, Lisp is one of most expressive languages planned and created
by the human mind.
This May 21st, Heow Eide-Goodman (LispNYC.org, local user group,
founder, NYLUG member) will walk you through a rediscovery journey of
the respected 40-plus years old programming language. Learn some of
Lisp's core capabilities, still unmatched by it's modern day
contemporaries, and experience an advanced Object Oriented architecture
so flexible it still defies UML definition. Witness Lisp features that
make C++/Java professionals green with envy.
Geared with just enough technical details for geeks, and with proven
business cases that managers love, Heow will demonstrate how Lisp can
not only make your programs better suited for the task at hand, but how
it will also save you time and money. Always a good thing.
For the truly geeky at heart note a passage from a major hackerdom
reference, ``How To Become A Hacker'' by Eric Steven Raymond, on his
suggested path for l'apprenti sorcier to follow:
LISP is worth learning for a different reason ? the profound
enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it. That
experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your
days, even if you never actually use LISP itself a lot.
Raymond is writing in the context of expanding your mind with Lisp, and
gaining the chops, stocking your arsenal of modern programming
languages and techniques. His perspective is incisive, read the brief
essay to learn his views on programming languages, hacking ethos and
directions for your hero quest.
With Lisp meriting three stories in Slashdot within the past year, find
out why Lisp is hip and well poised for popular revival.
For More Information Visit:
* LispNYC.org
http://www.LispNYC.org/
* Association of Lisp Users
http://www.alu.org/ or http://www.lisp.org
* Slashdot Article: Kent Pitman on Lisp
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/03/1726251
* Slashdot Article: Using Lisp to Beat Your Competition
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/01/1539239
* Slashdot Article: The Hundred Year Language
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/1223223
* Slashdot Article: Lisp as an Alternative to Java
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/08/0113203
* comp.lang.lisp
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=comp.lang.lisp
* Lisp Potpourri
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/Lisp/?tc=1
* ``How To Become A Hacker'', Hackers drawl their gong fu with a Lisp
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#skills1
About Heow Eide-Goodman:
After earning a Computer Science degree from Bowling Green State
University, Heow has spent the last decade as a consultant, developing
software. ``Only lately has he realized that life is too short to be
spent on relatively low level languages like C.''
He is author of a Unix utility Long Live XTerm, Tiny Scheme for the
Sharp Zaurus and contributor to many Open Source Software projects.
Heow is a founding member of Lisp NYC and the NYC Extreme Programming
professional development groups, is currently employed by Thomson
Media, and installs Debian Linux on every computer he can get his hands
on.
Free Stuff!
Swag of undetermined value and quantity may be distributed on a
first-come, first-served basis. Arrive early for the best selection
Keysignings
GPG cryptography. Immediately after the presentation and continuing
at PJ Clarke's, we will be gathering for a keysigning. For those who
already have keys, please remember to bring paper printouts of your
40-character key fingerprint, as per the instructions in our howto
docs. If you haven't created a key yet, and for keysigning details,
our howto docs are a must read. http://www.nylug.org/keys
Stammtisch
*** Note the current location ***
After the meeting ... Join us around 8:15pm or so at PJ Clarke's,
located at 915 3rd Avenue, at the corner of 55th Street:
http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/7158471/
Please see our home page at http://www.nylug.org for the HTMLized
version of this announcement, our archives, and a lot of other
good stuff.
Monthly Reminder!
Please read the NYLUG-Talk Posting Guidelines at:
http://www.nylug.org/mlistguide/
________________________________________________________________________
May 2003 - The New York Linux Users Group, NYLUG.org
_______________________________________________
nylug-announce mailing list
··············@nylug.org
http://herzl.nylug.org/mailman/listinfo/nylug-announce
</blockquote>
From: Kenny Tilton
Subject: Re: NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 13 May 2003 Lisp NYC Meeting and Wednesday 21 May 2003 Lisp Outreach at NYLUG
Date:
Message-ID: <3EC14DF8.4070607@nyc.rr.com>
And let us not forget that this is "Meet Thomas Burdick Night", who will
hold forth informally on Testa, a system for program verification
without compiler support (the beers will help).
kenny
·········@lxny.org wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 May 2003 Lisp NYC will meet in the standard bar. Lisp NYC is
> a big tent organization. Teetotalers and moderationists welcome! Of
> course, Hard Shell Total-Immersion Lambadists will find a Bottomless Barrel
> of Parentheses at the door.
>
> And there is a persistent rumor that on Wednesday 21 May 2003, a monstrous
> rough beast, larger and shaggier than any focus-group-stultified darling of
> the mass media, will slouch round MidTown New York City. Some say the
> Beast has business with IBM.
>
> Official Lisp NYC notice just below. Under this official notice is a post
> without crypto-signature that has been circulated on several score mailing
> lists. The affected lists vary widely in both degree of propriety and
> measure of versimilitude.
>
> Subscriber! Read, Study, and Decide!
>
> Jay Sulzberger <·········@lxny.org>
> Corresponding Secretary LXNY
> LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
> http://www.lxny.org
>
>
> <blockquote
> from="official LISPNYC announcement"
> what="LC Meeting TINLC">
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> To: ·····@lispnyc.org" <····@lispnyc.org>
> Subject: [Lisp] May meeting announcement, 13 May 7pm
>
> It is my pleasure to announce our meeting at "Time Out" on May/13/2003 at 7pm. The meeting will run for about an hour and then we will go to the bar. It is down stairs.
>
> Here are the directions:
>
> The deets:
>
> Name: Time Out
> Location: Amsterdam between 76th and 77th, east side of street, between
> River (Vietnamese and also good food) and another bar/restaurant (name
> forgotten, also good food,drink).
> getting there:
>
> -- by car, 79th street exit from west side highway, down west end ave or
> broadway to 76th, turn left and one or two blocks to Amsterdam.
>
> -- by subway, 1-2-3-9 (the red line) to 72nd or 79th and Broadway. From
> 72nd, walk up Amsterdam (not Broadway). Amsterdam and Broadway cross at
> 72nd. From 79th, walk east one long block to Amsterdam and turn right/south.
>
> </blockquote>
>
>
> <blockquote
> from="claimed-to-be-official NYLUG announcement"
> what="Important Lisp Meeting NYC 21 May 2003">
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Reply-To: ··············@nylug.org
> Subject: [nylug-announce] NY Linux Users Grp. 21 May Meeting: Lisp,
> A Fresh Look
>
> May 21st, 2003
> Wednesday
> 6:30pm-8:00pm
> IBM Headquarters Building
> 590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street
> 9th Floor, home to the IBM Linux Center of Competency
>
> ** RSVP Instructions **
> Unless you have already rsvp'ed for a prior meeting, everyone
> should RSVP to attend. http://rsvp.nylug.org
> Check in with photo ID at the lobby for badge and room number.
>
> ** Stammtisch **
> Note the current location of Stammtisch. See below for details.
>
>
> Heow Eide-Goodman (LispNYC.org)
> -on-
> Lisp, A Fresh Look
>
>
> Lisp is the programming language evolving from 1950s computer science
> work by John McCarthy, one of the pioneers in computer artificial
> intelligence. Over the course of time Lisp has evolved many variants,
> among them Common Lisp, Scheme, even the venerable Emacs editor churns
> along powered by Elisp. Evidently, and as affirmed by this month's
> speaker, Lisp is one of most expressive languages planned and created
> by the human mind.
>
> This May 21st, Heow Eide-Goodman (LispNYC.org, local user group,
> founder, NYLUG member) will walk you through a rediscovery journey of
> the respected 40-plus years old programming language. Learn some of
> Lisp's core capabilities, still unmatched by it's modern day
> contemporaries, and experience an advanced Object Oriented architecture
> so flexible it still defies UML definition. Witness Lisp features that
> make C++/Java professionals green with envy.
>
> Geared with just enough technical details for geeks, and with proven
> business cases that managers love, Heow will demonstrate how Lisp can
> not only make your programs better suited for the task at hand, but how
> it will also save you time and money. Always a good thing.
>
> For the truly geeky at heart note a passage from a major hackerdom
> reference, ``How To Become A Hacker'' by Eric Steven Raymond, on his
> suggested path for l'apprenti sorcier to follow:
>
> LISP is worth learning for a different reason ? the profound
> enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it. That
> experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your
> days, even if you never actually use LISP itself a lot.
>
> Raymond is writing in the context of expanding your mind with Lisp, and
> gaining the chops, stocking your arsenal of modern programming
> languages and techniques. His perspective is incisive, read the brief
> essay to learn his views on programming languages, hacking ethos and
> directions for your hero quest.
>
> With Lisp meriting three stories in Slashdot within the past year, find
> out why Lisp is hip and well poised for popular revival.
>
> For More Information Visit:
>
> * LispNYC.org
> http://www.LispNYC.org/
> * Association of Lisp Users
> http://www.alu.org/ or http://www.lisp.org
> * Slashdot Article: Kent Pitman on Lisp
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/03/1726251
> * Slashdot Article: Using Lisp to Beat Your Competition
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/01/1539239
> * Slashdot Article: The Hundred Year Language
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/1223223
> * Slashdot Article: Lisp as an Alternative to Java
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/08/0113203
> * comp.lang.lisp
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=comp.lang.lisp
> * Lisp Potpourri
> http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/Lisp/?tc=1
> * ``How To Become A Hacker'', Hackers drawl their gong fu with a Lisp
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#skills1
>
> About Heow Eide-Goodman:
>
> After earning a Computer Science degree from Bowling Green State
> University, Heow has spent the last decade as a consultant, developing
> software. ``Only lately has he realized that life is too short to be
> spent on relatively low level languages like C.''
>
> He is author of a Unix utility Long Live XTerm, Tiny Scheme for the
> Sharp Zaurus and contributor to many Open Source Software projects.
>
> Heow is a founding member of Lisp NYC and the NYC Extreme Programming
> professional development groups, is currently employed by Thomson
> Media, and installs Debian Linux on every computer he can get his hands
> on.
>
> Free Stuff!
> Swag of undetermined value and quantity may be distributed on a
> first-come, first-served basis. Arrive early for the best selection
>
> Keysignings
> GPG cryptography. Immediately after the presentation and continuing
> at PJ Clarke's, we will be gathering for a keysigning. For those who
> already have keys, please remember to bring paper printouts of your
> 40-character key fingerprint, as per the instructions in our howto
> docs. If you haven't created a key yet, and for keysigning details,
> our howto docs are a must read. http://www.nylug.org/keys
>
> Stammtisch
> *** Note the current location ***
> After the meeting ... Join us around 8:15pm or so at PJ Clarke's,
> located at 915 3rd Avenue, at the corner of 55th Street:
>
> http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/7158471/
>
> Please see our home page at http://www.nylug.org for the HTMLized
> version of this announcement, our archives, and a lot of other
> good stuff.
>
> Monthly Reminder!
> Please read the NYLUG-Talk Posting Guidelines at:
> http://www.nylug.org/mlistguide/
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> May 2003 - The New York Linux Users Group, NYLUG.org
> _______________________________________________
> nylug-announce mailing list
> ··············@nylug.org
> http://herzl.nylug.org/mailman/listinfo/nylug-announce
>
> </blockquote>
--
kenny tilton
clinisys, inc
http://www.tilton-technology.com/
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