NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 13 September 2011 Lisp NYC: John Cowan on R7RS

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  what="official Lisp NYC announcement"
  more="http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/
        http://www.r6rs.org/
        http://www.r7rs.org/";
  and="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_%28programming_language%29
       [page was last modified on 6 September 2011 at 20:01]
       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL
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       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC
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  personal-remark="I use with satisfaction Aubrey Jaffer's SCM:
                   http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/SCM";
  rsvp="Yes, please, see below.
        The amount of pizza is finely calculated."
  edits="">

 From: Brian Gruber <lispnyc.org@brian.iheardata.com>
 Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:08:15 -0400
 To: lisp-announce@lispnyc.org
 Subject: [Lisp-announce] Next week: What's new in R7RS with John Cowan

 Hello Lispers,

 Please join us next Tuesday, September 13th at 7pm for our monthly
 meeting. This month, we focus our attention on Scheme with John
 Cowan's much-anticipated talk on R7RS.

 ---

 Scheme is undergoing another revision cycle. Because of widespread
 dissatisfaction with and resistance to R6RS, the Scheme Steering
 Committee (Will Clinger, Marc Feeley, Chris Hanson, Jonathan Rees, and
 Olin Shivers) decided to standardize two Schemes: a small language,
 the direct successor to R5RS; and a large language, potentially larger
 than R6RS or even ANSI Common Lisp.

 Two Working Groups called WG1 and WG2 respectively were selected by
 the Committee from volunteers. WG1 has been working busily, enhancing
 R5RS with new features and improvements on existing features, with
 reference to the consistency of the language and consistency with
 existing implementations. The completion of that process is now in
 sight with the publication of the third working draft of the small
 language.

 John Cowan is a member of both WGs and the chair of WG2. His talk will
 discuss the goals of small Scheme, what WG1 has done, what it has left
 to do, and (time permitting) something of WG2's work and plans to
 date.

 ---

 This month's meeting will be at Meetup HQ, 632 Broadway, 3rd floor. Pizza and
 beer (and soft drinks) provided, courtesy of Meetup. RSVP at
 http://www.meetup.com/LispNYC/events/18481411/

 RSVPing is not strictly required but is politely requested, as the
 amount of pizza will be determined by the number of members who RSVP.

 /brian
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