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[Ann] Next meeting of the MSLUG
- From: "Dominique Boucher" <dominique dot boucher at nuecho dot com>
- To: "Kawa List" <kawa at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:03:34 -0500
- Subject: [Ann] Next meeting of the MSLUG
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 Boucher