[Chicken-users] [Ann] Next meeting of the MSLUG

[schemeway]

The next meeting will be on November 22, 2006.

Talk: Factor: a non-trivial stack language, by Slava Pestov.
I will start with a quick overview of key language features found in Factor 
(higher-order functions, generic functions, continuations, code-as-data...), 
and how they relate to abstractions you know and love from Common Lisp and 
Scheme. I will attempt to explain the philosophy of programming with a stack. I 
will then talk about the architecture of the Factor compiler, which implements 
some interesting optimizations I developed which are specific to stack-based 
languages. Finally I will give an overview of the Factor user interface 
framework. The presentation slides will actually be displayed by a Factor 
program running on my laptop (with PDF dumps as backup), and I will be able to 
do a little bit of live coding (assuming my software doesn't fail horribly).

For more information: http://schemeway.dyndns.org/mslug and 
http://factorcode.org 

See you there!

Dominique