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Vancouver Lisp Users Group meeting for February 2008 - Doing Evil Things with CL

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

After a bit of a break over the Christmas/New Year period, we will be holding our first lispvan meeting of 2008. It promises to be an interesting one too - Brad Beveridge has a strong background in embedded systems programming and has recently started using Lisp in some of the work that he has been doing. His presentation will cover a few of the things that he's been up to.

Unfortunately, our normal venue (the Think! Cafe) has closed down, so I had to find an alternative. I think Calhoun's Coffee House and Restaurant is a pretty good option. It has a good selection of food, coffee, beer, free wifi, is relatively quiet, is relatively "large" (big enough for our group as well as regular patrons), and caters to laptop users and students. Unfortunately, there won't be a projector, so we'll have to VNC a couple of laptops so that we aren't all crowded around Brad's laptop. We've done that in the past, so this shouldn't be a problem (so long as some people remember to bring laptops! ;-) ).

Here's the "official" meeting notice:

Topic: Doing Evil Things with CL
Presenter: Brad Beveridge
Date: Thursday, February 28, 2008
Time: 7pm - 10pm (or whenever)
Venue: Calhoun's, 3035 West Broadway, Vancouver (see map)
Summary: Brad will be talking about various low-level bits and pieces, including:

• Loading code that is normally a Linux driver into a Lisp image
• Creating CFFI bindings to foreign code
• Writing Lisp code to load binary files using the binary-types library
• Parsing Mach-O (OS X) executable files