Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers22 Tammi 2008

Episode 84: Dick Gabriel on Lisp

In this Episode we're talking with Dick Gabriel on Lisp. We started by looking at artificial intelligence as the historic context of Lisp, the goals AI tried to reach, and how Lisp was supposed to help reach those. We then discussed the language itself, starting with the Data As Program / Program As Data concept that is a foundation for Lisp. Then we discussed adding a meta-circular interpreter, programming as language development, and the blurred boundary between language and frameworks (because everything uses the same syntax). We then talked about Lisp's type system and the importance of macros to extend the language. The next section concerned CLOS, the Common Lisp Object System and its important concepts: generic functions, multimethods, mixins, and method combination. We also briefly looked at the meta-object protocol but agreed this is a topic for a separate episode. After a discussion about the various dialects of Lisp and Scheme, we concluded the Lisp discussion by explaining why Lisp did not really catch on ("AI Winter") and Lisp's role in today's industry. We ended the episode with a couple of details about Dick's other life as a poet and his Poem a Day effort. Make sure you listen till the end, where we have added a song about Lisp (courtesy of Prometheus Music.)

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Episode 85: Web Services with Olaf Zimmermann

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Episode 83: Jeff DeLuca on Feature Driven Development

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Episode 82: Organization of Large Code Bases with Juergen Hoeller

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Episode 81: Interview Erich Gamma

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Episode 80: OSGi with Peter Kriens and BJ Hargrave

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Episode 79: Small Memory Software with Weir and Noble

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Episode 78: Fault Tolerance with Bob Hanmer Pt. 2

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