James Anderson, Benno Biewer, Niels Gösche, Joerg-Cyril Hoehle,
Sven Köhler and i met at 5pm.
James had prepared two short talks about XML and a JAVA->LISP translator.

We start with a discussion about the advantages and disadvantages of XML.
James shows a nice example which uses XML to allow independent development
of content and look of a HTML page. He had organized a G4 powerbook and so
we are able to look how it works in practice.
The LISP & XML theme poped up again over the whole evening. This was obvious
since James wrote CL-XML, a XML parser that simplyfies the handling of XML remarkable.

Our second major topic was a JAVA->Lisp translator developed by James (a nice
point: both tools are based on an ATN parser originally developed by Benno).
James demonstrated the goods and odds of automatic translation with a short
example. It shows that while the translation itself works remarkable good, the
result still needs some reworks due to semantic differences and (obviously) missing
Java compatible libraries.

The rest of the evening was spend to a lot of small themes like "Does feature X
from MCL is also available in LWW" over "What are you doing with LISP" up to
"In Smalltalk it is possible to ...". In summary all themes that can better be
discussed in a bar than in front of a computer monitor.

Overall, it was a great evening and we will shure meet again.

Special thanks to James who spend a lot of energy to give two excellent
presentations of excellent LISP tools.