STL LOCAL: Saturday 26 April 2008, 12pm @ Buder Public Library
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From: daBittweiler on 20 Apr 2008 15:12 Please join us for our next meeting on Saturday, April 26 from 12pm to 2:30pm at Buder Public Library. Aaron Hsu Presents: High Performance Looping Macros in Scheme. "Notice what a difference macros make. A Lisp programmer who notices a common pattern in their code can write a macro to give themselves a source-level abstraction of that pattern. A Java programmer who notices the same pattern has to convince Sun that this particular abstraction is worth adding to the language. Then Sun has to publish a JSR and convene an industry-wide expert group to hash everything out. That processaccording to Suntakes an average of 18 months. After that, the compiler writers all have to go upgrade their compilers to support the new feature. And even once the Java programmers favorite compiler supports the new version of Java, they probably still cant use the new feature until theyre allowed to break source compatibility with older versions of Java. So an annoyance that Common Lisp programmers can resolve for themselves within five minutes plagues Java programmers for years." - Peter Seibel Directions: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=Buder%20Public%20Library |