Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman - Inside Clojure (54 minute video interview)

Easy enough to download and run through mplayer.

Beckman's an interesting character, and he asked intelligent questions. I was unaware of him before this (I don't know anything about the M'soft or CLR worlds) but I'll have to keep an eye out from now on.

After a mercifully short Lisp intro (parentheses, prefix notation, programs-as-data and the macro system) Hickey spends most of his time talking about Clojure's seq abstraction, immutability and persistence, constant-time modification to existing structures, and the STM.

Not an interview for complete neophytes, their conversation includes offhand references to fp, monads, functions as first class objects, OO classes/methods and other stuff they didn't bother to explain. IOW it wasn't dumbed-down. This is an intro to Clojure for not-stupids who might not have seen a Lisp before, but that's okay -- they don't end up talking all that much about Lisp.

I'm ... I'm installing Silverlight to watch a video on Clojure.

Help.

EDIT: Nevermind, you can download source files below the video. Phew?

This site gets clogged with video links that sound interesting taken alone, but would consume vast amounts of time if you tried to watch them all.

If there's no nice way to get transcripts, maybe there's at least some way to condense this stuff in time? Cut out pauses, speed up the talking while keeping pitch normal, etc.