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Vancouver Lisp Users Group meeting for July - Web Development with a Declarative Programming Language

Monday, July 24, 2006

Well, it's that time of the month again - time to brush the sand off our feet, abandon the beach and once again head off to a lispvan meeting!

Here's the "official" meeting notice:

Topic: Web Development with a Declarative Programming Language
Presenter: Drew Crampsie
Date: Thursday, July 27, 2006 ** CANCELLED **
Time: 7pm - 10pm (or whenever)
Venue: Think!, 4512 West 10th Ave., Vancouver (see map)
Summary: Wikipedia defines a declarative programming language as "a high-level language that describes a problem rather than defining a solution". In other words, it describes the "what" rather than the "how". Drew Crampsie has been using his own LoL CL web application development framework (built on top of a number of other packages) to develop web applications using such a declarative approach for a number of years now. And, although he's demo'ed the framework to lispvan in the past, the framework is now more mature and in use in more customer applications.

Join us for a cold beer and a look at a different approach to CL web application development!

Also, for all you trivia fans, the first lispvan meeting was a year ago (July 21, 2005) and was also presented by Drew Crampsie and was also about LoL!

Update-2006-07-26: Unfortunately, tomorrow's meeting is cancelled as something has come up and Drew will not be able to give his presentation. Sorry for the short notice! We'll need to re-schedule the meeting for a later date.

In the meantime, mark your calendars as Marc Battyani will be coming from France to give a presentation to lispvan on August 17 (actually, he's here on vacation/business, but it sounds better to say that he is coming to give a lispvan presentation!). His talk will be on a combination of topics, including:

1. "Lisp at Work": Running a lisp business
2. Why continuations are not a good way to do web applications