Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > Hi! > > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > >> I had the pleasant surprise to be invited to give a talk about Guix at >> the Scheme Workshop in September in Japan: >> >> http://scheme2016.snow-fort.org/ >> >> While I was at it, I submitted another talk to the Commercial(!) Users >> of Functional Programming conference, which was accepted: >> >> http://cufp.org/2016/ > > I just came back and I’ve put the slides at: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/help/#talks > > Apart from the usual overview, the Scheme Workshop talk covered mainly > staging and G-expressions. There were ~30 people; I think it was pretty > well received. > > After the talk, I chatted with Oleg Kiselyov (who unfortunately didn’t > attend) about the hygiene issue we have when composing gexps, and how > the MetaScheme PoC implementation just doesn’t apply to full Scheme with > macros. He pointed me to papers about “staged notation definition” and > MacroML that I haven’t yet taken the time to investigate. > > The CUFP talk was in this very nice room with 60 people or so. I > focused on why and how we use Scheme extensively, explicitly comparing > to Nix{,OS}, which the majority of the attendance already knew. Among > the questions I had, one was “how do I upgrade from Nix?” ;-), and > another one was the inevitable (given the venue) “what do you think a > static type system would bring you?”. > > Videos should be available shortly. > > It was a great experience, especially chatting with Scheme/Clojure/Lisp > and FP folks, famous or not!
Woo, that sounds great! I’m looking forward to the videos! ~~ Ricardo
