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The Evolution of Lisp

Richard Gabriel, Guy Steele · InfoQ · 47 HN points · 0 HN comments
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Guy L. Steele Jr. and Richard P. Gabriel reenact their presentation called “The Evolution of Lisp” which took place during ACM History of Languages Conference in 1993.
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Sep 26, 2019 · 2 points, 0 comments · submitted by tosh
Jan 30, 2012 · 45 points, 4 comments · submitted by humanfromearth
bdg
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/

mattdeboard
If nothing else, this was great to watch for the delectable geek humor.
akkartik
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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puredanger
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

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

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