Test trial ZSLUG meeting 0.1 alpha
Last night was the first ZSLUG (Zürich Scheme/Lisp Users Group) meeting at the Lion Bar. This turned out to be both a fantastic success - in that about 15 people turned up - and something of a failure - in that there were so many people it became impractical for Juho to complete his presentation on SBCL code coverage. The search for an alternative venue/plex is on…
Down my end of the table(s) talk was about R6RS and the social psychology of standardisation; ARC and the rôle of Paul Graham in the (Common) Lisp community; theoretical physics and the bandwidth requirements of CERN; performance characteristics of Bigloo, SBCL and Chez Scheme; why developing in Schemes other than Scheme48 is painful and the wonders of Slime; and the mystery of where all the lispers maintaining the Swiss International Airlines Limited application have gone.
I made a particularly unconvincing argument for the wonders of CLIM and Climacs. Must do better!
I was the first to leave, so things might well have broken up acrimoniously by the end of the evening, but judging on what I saw and heard I would have to say that ZSLUG has a great future ahead of it.
February 26th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Excellent. I was sad to miss it but plan to make the next one. There will be a next one, right?
I was one of the SwissAir lispers. Remember as SwissAir was going belly up there weren’t so many lispers anymore since the hot new project was in Java.
There were 4 of us in Geneva and maybe a half dozen or so in Zuerich. We started drifting away once SwissAir went broke and the IT part went to EDS.