The Evolution of Lisp

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

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/

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

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..