Dear Colleague,

This is to remind you of the following event.

Please note that the day and venue are different from the usual ACM seminar -- the day is Thursday, and the venue is SNDT Santacruz/Juhu.

Regards, - Durgesh, for ACM Mumbai

ACM Seminar Thursday, August 30, 2001 - 6:00 p.m. Title: A fresh look at LISP and CLOS Speaker: Durgesh D. Rao (NCST) Venue: Dept. of Computer Science, SNDT, Juhu Campus, Juhu Tara Road, Opp. Lido Theatre, Santacruz (W), Mumbai 400049. (ph. 6606648)

Abstract: LISP has traditionally been regarded as an esoteric, "AI" language, and hence largely ignored by the programming community. What is not widely appreciated is that LISP, and its OO extension, CLOS, are general-purpose languages that are elegant and powerful, and are used in a number of important non-AI applications due to the many advantages they provide. Moreover, LISP and CLOS have pioneered several crucial ideas that are slowly finding their way into mainstream languages such as C++ and Java.

In this seminar, I will try and illustrate those key features of LISP and CLOS that make them interesting and useful as languages for rapid prototyping and dynamic OOP.

About the Speaker: Durgesh Rao is a Research Scientist in the KBCS division at NCST. He enjoys using LISP, and likes to share this joy with others.

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