{"id":1551,"date":"2015-04-13T11:39:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T11:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2015-04-13T11:40:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T11:40:21","slug":"european-lisp-symposium-at-goldsmiths-20-21-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1551","title":{"rendered":"European Lisp Symposium at Goldsmiths, 20-21 April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.european-lisp-symposium.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1563\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Lisp.jpg\" alt=\"Lisp\" width=\"710\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Lisp.jpg 710w, http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Lisp-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>On Monday 20\u00a0and Tuesday 21 April 2015, Goldsmiths hosts the eighth annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.european-lisp-symposium.org\">European Lisp Symposium<\/a>, a forum for discussing the\u00a0design, implementation and application of Lisp and Lisp-inspired dialects.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>This year&#8217;s highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Quicklisp: On Beyond Beta<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em>Zach Beane, Clozure Associates<\/em><br \/>\nQuicklisp was released in 2010 as a public beta. Five years later, it&#8217;s still in beta. How has it\u00a0evolved in the past five years, and what will it take for Quicklisp to go on beyond beta?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00b5Kanren: Running the Little Things Backwards<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em>Bodil Stokke Read Bio<\/em><br \/>\nRelational programming, or logic programming, exhibits remarkable and powerful properties, to the extent that its implementation seems frightfully daunting to the layman.<br \/>\nIn this talk, we will explore \u00b5Kanren, 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Unwanted memory retention<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em> Martin Cracauer, Google Read Bio<\/em><br \/>\nThis 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong> Goldsmiths, University of London<br \/>\n<strong>When:<\/strong> Monday 20 &#8211; Tuesday 21 April 2015<br \/>\n<strong>Registration:\u00a0<\/strong>\u20ac200 (\u20ac100 students) &#8211; book on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.european-lisp-symposium.org\"><strong>European Lisp Symposium<\/strong>\u00a0website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 20\u00a0and Tuesday 21 April 2015, Goldsmiths hosts the eighth annual European Lisp Symposium, a forum for discussing the\u00a0design, implementation and application of Lisp and Lisp-inspired dialects. This year&#8217;s highlights Quicklisp: On Beyond Beta Zach Beane, Clozure Associates Quicklisp was released in 2010 as a public beta. Five years later, it&#8217;s still in beta. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1551\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">European Lisp Symposium at Goldsmiths, 20-21 April<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1566,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}