Scheme/Lisp User Group meetings in Montreal (5)
September 4th, 2007 · by Heri · Events
Dominique Boucher, who wrote previously an article about Scheme/Lisp on Montreal Tech Watch, has a report about last week’s developer meeting.
It looks like they were inspired by the democamp/barcamp format for their meetups, with programmers showing their projects and work. They had demos about a new programming language, Cat, a Just-In-Time synthetizer, and an interpreter. Looks like a bunch of hackers, à la Paul Graham, for me. But then again, I have no experience with Scheme and maybe that’s also how most people view MontrealOnRails meetups.
How was the room?
Lisp seems scary to me, maybe I should go there to take a peek one day :)
for me, it’s the ( ) in lisp that i find weird and non intuitive.
Carl: we hold the meetings at the Université de Montréal, so we have access to a 40-50 seats room, with a good projector. It’s a small conference room.
Heri: although weird and non intuitive at first sight, Lisp parentheses are an essential ingredient for its power. After a few days of programming, you don’t notice them anymore, given that you use a good editor.
http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/1397/lispnd7.png
i saw the screenshot. that was fun.
what kind of text editor are you using? are you on linux?
Heri:
I used to be an Emacs type of guy. But now I use Eclipse at work so I developed a Scheme editor plugin for Eclipse: http://schemeway.sourceforge.net
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