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The Evolution of Lisp

• mattdeboard 15y ago
  If nothing else, this was great to watch for the delectable geek humor.
• bdg 15y ago
  I don't know why the video was so small... I had to re-write the page just to see it at a reasonable size. http://jsfiddle.net/8Zhas/embedded/result/ http://jsfiddle.net/8Zhas/embedded/result/
• puredanger 15y ago
  Just FYI, Richard Gabriel will be doing a keynote talk at the upcoming Clojure/West conference in San Jose, Mar 16-17, 2012. Other keynotes include Rich Hickey (creator of Clojure), Stu Halloway, and Bradford Cross. Schedule is here: http://clojurewest.org/schedule http://clojurewest.org/schedule Gabriel's talk is 'Engineering(,) A Path to Science: “I don’t want to die in a language I can’t understand”' and the abstract is here: http://clojurewest.org/sessions#gabriel http://clojurewest.org/sessions#gabriel
• akkartik 15y ago
  So scheme started out as an AI project and turned into a dialect of lisp when they realized that the actor model was isomorphic to lexical scope..
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