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OOPSLA/DLS/MSLUG Lisp Mashup Meeting in Montreal!

Thursday, September 13, 2007

I don't normally attend the OOPSLA conference; however, I'm going to attend part of this year's conference. Why? (you might ask) - well, since you asked ;-) :

• This year the conference is in Montreal, a fabulous, multi-cultural, Canadian city. For future reference, any time you see that a conference is going to be held in either Vancouver, Toronto, or Montreal, you can be sure you'll have a great time!
• The Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) will be colocated with OOPSLA and there will be a number of interesting lisp-related papers presented at it.
• A number of excellent Lisp speakers (who, unfortunately won't be speaking specifically about Lisp but who are usually very interesting speakers anyhow) will be giving presentations at the OOPSLA conference (including Richard Gabriel, Gregor Kiczales, John McCarthy, Guy Steele)
• The Montreal Scheme/Lisp User Group (MSLUG) will be having a meeting on one evening of the conference. There are two speakers planned for MSLUG - Manuel Serrano will give a presentation on Hop (a Bigloo Scheme-based Web2.0 programming language), and Pascal Costanza will give a presentation on ContextL (which I reviewed a while ago in a post titled The Holy Grail of Business App Development). Both presentations should be very interesting.