Friday Night Lisp Extravaganza 2: Implementing a Scheme Interpreter From Scratch


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WHAT: Jay Reynolds Freeman will present on designing and implementing a Scheme interpreter “from a blank sheet of paper”, with nobody else's source code to start off with.
Among many things, Jay is the author of Wraith Scheme, an R5RS Scheme implementation for the Mac:
http://web.mac.com/Jay_Reynolds_Freeman/WraithScheme.64/Wraith%20Scheme%20Help.2.22.html
and Pixie Scheme III, a Scheme for the iPad:
http://web.mac.com/Jay_Reynolds_Freeman/My/Pixie_Scheme_III.html
WHEN: Friday June 3rd
WHERE: Google building GWC2, room Grand Teton Tech Talk, 1501 Salado Dr., Mountain View:
http://goo.gl/ciN6O (Google Maps)
Meet at the front entrance of the building instead of the side entrance. Note: these directions have changed. We can no longer go directly into the room through the side entrance because everyone needs to be issued a visitor badge.
SCHEDULE:
19:00 -- Introductions / Announcements
19:15 -- Implementing a Scheme Interpreter from Scratch, Part #1
20:00 -- Milk and cookies
20:15 -- Implementing a Scheme Interpreter from Scratch, Part #2
21:00 -- Q&A
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Aurthur Gleckler for putting things together on the Google end.

Friday Night Lisp Extravaganza 2: Implementing a Scheme Interpreter From Scratch