Hello all,
I was wondering if there is some sort of Lisp users group in the
Washington DC Metro area.
I googled for it some time but couldn't find anything current
Jaime
"jbar" <·········@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello all,
>
> I was wondering if there is some sort of Lisp users group in the
> Washington DC Metro area.
> I googled for it some time but couldn't find anything current
>
> Jaime
There are a number in the DC/VA area, up to into Baltimore as well. The
Space Science Telescope people up at Johns Hopkins have a neato-torpedo
planning & scheduling system in Lisp. There have been a few
get-togethers here and there. The most successful have been dinners
vaguely centered amongst interested people. I wouldn't mind doing
something like that again...
Regards,
Greg
I too would be interested, and I know of at least one other. I live in
Baltimore and work at Goddard and in Silver Spring.
If you search comp.lang.lisp something seemed to have happened back in
March...
Blaine
Thanks Greg,
Do you know how to contact any of those groups?
I started learning Lisp very recently and my goal is to know people
that I can learn from. I think a programming language is more culture
than syntax, so I won't get too far with books alone.
I don't mind the eating and the drinking either.
Jaime
Greg Menke wrote:
...
> There are a number in the DC/VA area, up to into Baltimore as well. The
> Space Science Telescope people up at Johns Hopkins have a neato-torpedo
> planning & scheduling system in Lisp. There have been a few
> get-togethers here and there. The most successful have been dinners
> vaguely centered amongst interested people. I wouldn't mind doing
> something like that again...
>
> Regards,
>
> Greg
"jbar" <·········@gmail.com> writes:
> Thanks Greg,
>
> Do you know how to contact any of those groups?
>
> I started learning Lisp very recently and my goal is to know people
> that I can learn from. I think a programming language is more culture
> than syntax, so I won't get too far with books alone.
>
> I don't mind the eating and the drinking either.
>
> Jaime
I think most of them observe this group, so you're already talking to
them. We did DC Lispnik stuff a few times, trying a different venue
each time. The conversation was quite geeky at times as might be
expected. The difficulty of going to a restaurant is its often noisy,
OTOH its awfully nice to discuss Lisp esoterica over a beer.
Do keep the session vaguely on topic, one useful approach might be to
bring some part of what you're working on big or small and chat about
it. I know I have a couple reasonably sized programs with real,
imagined or undiscovered issues that could use basically a code review.
Kind of clumsy to do it in a restaurant, but a cafe sort of place where
laptops can be brought out might work.
Greg
I would be interested in a meetup as well :)
Greg Menke wrote:
> "jbar" <·········@gmail.com> writes:
> > Thanks Greg,
> >
> > Do you know how to contact any of those groups?
> >
> > I started learning Lisp very recently and my goal is to know people
> > that I can learn from. I think a programming language is more culture
> > than syntax, so I won't get too far with books alone.
> >
> > I don't mind the eating and the drinking either.
> >
> > Jaime
>
>
> I think most of them observe this group, so you're already talking to
> them. We did DC Lispnik stuff a few times, trying a different venue
> each time. The conversation was quite geeky at times as might be
> expected. The difficulty of going to a restaurant is its often noisy,
> OTOH its awfully nice to discuss Lisp esoterica over a beer.
>
> Do keep the session vaguely on topic, one useful approach might be to
> bring some part of what you're working on big or small and chat about
> it. I know I have a couple reasonably sized programs with real,
> imagined or undiscovered issues that could use basically a code review.
> Kind of clumsy to do it in a restaurant, but a cafe sort of place where
> laptops can be brought out might work.
>
> Greg