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[Ann] Next meeting of the MSLUG


The next meeting will be on November 22, 2006.

Talk: Factor: a non-trivial stack language, by Slava Pestov.

I will start with a quick overview of key language features found in Factor
(higher-order functions, generic functions, continuations, code-as-data...),
and how they relate to abstractions you know and love from Common Lisp and
Scheme. I will attempt to explain the philosophy of programming with a
stack. I will then talk about the architecture of the Factor compiler, which
implements some interesting optimizations I developed which are specific to
stack-based languages. Finally I will give an overview of the Factor user
interface framework. The presentation slides will actually be displayed by a
Factor program running on my laptop (with PDF dumps as backup), and I will
be able to do a little bit of live coding (assuming my software doesn't fail
horribly).

For more information: http://schemeway.dyndns.org/mslug and
http://factorcode.org 

See you there!

Dominique Boucher





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