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The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, October 7th, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Haldeman 041 23 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 About Lisp -or- Lambda, the Ultimate Lecture presented by Yoni Rabkin Yoni will first introduce symbolic, conditional and meta expressions and their recursive definitions with the λ-notation. Then he will briefly describe how such expressions might be represented by a computer. He will introduce the Lisp REPL and use it to explore a number of basic Lisp paradigms such as closures, functional programming, and Lisp macros. Finally, we shall look at the past and present of Lisp as a language. Yoni Rabkin studied computer science and math and after a stint testing medical lasers has been a working programmer for the past 6 years. Yoni has been volunteering at the Free Software Foundation's GPL Compliance Lab since 2006. ----- Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle _______________________________________________ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce _______________________________________________ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-announce@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/