European Lisp Symposium 2016

My above message was more about actual production. I find his work already revolutionary enough. Feels like a new bridge between computer aided <x> and biochemistry. I don't know if that part is completely new though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X69_42Mj-g

This talk is even better. "C++ templates are to Commmon Lisp macros what IRS tax return forms are to poetry". I don't know both well enough to tell if it's true, but damn it's a good metaphor.

I know both well enough and I think it's very true :).

Christian Schafmeister's talks are great and I'm very impressed by his work. It was a great experience to meet him personally on this year's ELS. One thing I learned from chatting with him during the conference break is that his work on Clasp is actually pushing LLVM forward - when implementing Common Lisp / C++ cross-linking he found some bugs that were there because apparently no one before has been trying to do the stuff he's doing - so he had to nag some Apple engineers to get to work and fix them ;).

Ah, the Julia talk ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK3zRXhrFZY ) was just great. Showing the generated machine code is so hackerish yet so rare these days. :-/

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