Don't you guys think it's time to move into the present day and let the past go?
IOW lose the <blockquote> listserv geek format and try something a little more, ahem, modern. Top posted on purpose just to annoy the net nannies that will no doubt come out of the woodwork. lol On 15 Jul 2013 17:08:28 -0400, secret...@lxny.org wrote: > <blockquote > what="almost official Lisp NYC announcement" > info="Ray is Raymond de Lacaze" > see="http://lispnyc.org/" > edits="some lines removed; > address now specifies which borough of New York City > the meeting is in"> > > Subject: New York City Lisp User Group: Annual LispNYC BBQ > X-URL: http://lispnyc.org/ > > corner New York City > Lisp Group LispNYC.org meetings blogs news home > > ( front-page ) > > 2013 Summer Programming Contest > > We're proud to announce our contest Lisp in Summer Projects , over > $5000 of prizes and anyone can join in on the fun. > > Upcoming related events: > * Jun 1 Lisp in Summer Projects signup begins, everywhere. > * Jun 1-4, European Lisp Symposium 2013 - ELS'13 in Madrid, Spain > * Jun 2, European Common Lisp Meeting - single day conference in > Madrid, Spain > * Jun 9-12, "30 Years of Smalltalk" the Smalltalk Industry Conference > - STIC'13 in Phoenix, Arizona > * Jun 24 Lisp in Small Projects coding starts! > * Jul 8-10, Lambda Jam: A conference for functional programmers in > Chicago, Illinois > * Sept 18-20, Strange Loop in St. Louis, Missouri > * Sept 25-27, ICFP 2013 in Boston, Massachussetts > * Nov 14-16, Clojure/Conf in Alexandria, Virginia (Washington DC) > > ( meeting - Tuesday, July 16, 7:00 PM - Annual LispNYC BBQ ) > > It's the grilling time of year, come enjoy it with us! > Burgers, Hot Dogs, Tofu, Chips and an initial amount of beer will be > provided. You are strongly encouraged to bring along whatever else > you'd like to grill and/or drink. Think potluck. > > You will enjoy a great view of the sun setting on the Hudson river and > over the New Jersey shoreline. A good time will be had by all and their > will be much bickering and rejoicing. > > This year we invited our friends from Clojure NYC and Haskell NYC. The > menu and activities below have been updated to reflect this. > > Directions > > The 96th subway station of the 1,2,3 trains is nearest. When get you to > building take the elevator to the 9th floor, then walk up the stairs to > the roofdeck. > > LISP BBQ Menu > > 1. Immutable Burgers > These are for the true Clojurians and feature burgers that are cooked > rare so that they pretty much come out the way they were put in thus > minimizing any harmful side effects that could result from the process > of cooking them. > > 2. Continuation Burgers > These are for the Schemers and feature burgers that are medium rare. > These burgers can be swapped in and out in a state preserving manner so > that cooking can continue at any point for a short time only, thus > allowing many burgers to be continuously cooked effectively in > parallel. > > 3. Closified Burgers > These are for the hardcore Common Lispers and feature burgers that are > well done and wrapped in blackened layers of dispatch protocols. The > overhead induced by the dispatching is why these burgers take longer to > cook. > > 4. Monadic Burgers > These are for the Haskellers and feature raw hamburger meat wrapped in > a bag that you can take home and cook later. Inside the bag is a > description of how to cook the meat. The bag features left and right > compartments, and should you fail to cook the meat, the spoiled meat > can be placed in the left airtight compartment. > > > Lisp/Haskell Multithreaded Dodge Ball > > We will be holding a dodge ball like tournament between the Haskellers > and the Lispers. The Lispers will be provided with numerous Nerf > Parentheses which can be thrown concurrently, and the Haskellers will > be provided with Nerf Monads which can also be thrown in parallel. > > We will however require the Haskellers to flatten their monads prior to > throwing them since we really don't want anybody getting hurt. > > Location: > Raymond's Rooftop > 304 W 92nd St. > Island of the Manahattoes > > more > > ( news ) > > < ... /> > > more news > bottom corner > > ( functional development ) > > LispNYC is a community devoted to the advocacy and advancement of > Lisp-based functional programming technologies such as Common Lisp, > Scheme and Clojure. > > We focus on education, outreach, regular monthly meetings, mailing > lists and development projects. > > Monthly meetings are held every second Tuesday, are free and open to > all. > > Providing parentheses to NYC since 2002 > > < ... /> > > bottom corner > "Like DNA, such a language [Lisp] does not go out of style." - Paul > Graham, ANSI Common Lisp > about this site > > </blockquote> > > > Distributed poC TINC: > > Jay Sulzberger <secret...@lxny.org> > Corresponding Secretary LXNY > LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. > http://www.lxny.org -- flatfish+++ PLEASE VISIT OUR HALL OF LINUX IDIOTS: http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss