On Monday 20 and Tuesday 21 April 2015, Goldsmiths hosts the eighth annual European Lisp Symposium, a forum for discussing the design, implementation and application of Lisp and Lisp-inspired dialects.

This year’s highlights

Quicklisp: On Beyond Beta
Zach Beane, Clozure Associates
Quicklisp was released in 2010 as a public beta. Five years later, it’s still in beta. How has it evolved in the past five years, and what will it take for Quicklisp to go on beyond beta?

µKanren: Running the Little Things Backwards
Bodil Stokke Read Bio
Relational programming, or logic programming, exhibits remarkable and powerful properties, to the extent that its implementation seems frightfully daunting to the layman.
In this talk, we will explore µKanren, a minimal relational language that strips the paradigm down to its core, leaving us with a succinct, elegant and above all simple set of primitives, on top of which we can rebuild even the most powerful relational constructs.

Unwanted memory retention
Martin Cracauer, Google Read Bio
This talk goes over numerous oddities in a Lisp-based system which led to unwanted heap memory retention and to constant resident memory growth over the uptime of the system.

Where: Goldsmiths, University of London
When: Monday 20 – Tuesday 21 April 2015
Registration: €200 (€100 students) – book on the European Lisp Symposium website