Dick Gabriel on Lisp



This podcast of Software Engineering Radio talks about the programming language of Lisp featuring Dick Grabriel. He started his company called Lucid that uses Lisp. He explains some of the features that make unique Lisp in regards to other programming languages.

He says that everything written in Lisp is a function. When I heard that I remember what I wrote in clojure and realize that we define everything, that is something I did not saw when I started coding until now, and I think that is one of its advantages.

Also he talks about macros, that this are like little programs that produces an expression  you want. I think this is something really useful, and I would be glad to make me a pro with this things called macros, because I think this is one of its general features and a key component to be really good with this language.

They aboard and interesting topic that is why is not so used the language of Lisp. Dick defends the language saying that is used sporadically in some research and also some commercially companies like Yahoo Store or for airlines reservations, and robotics stuff.

I am always wondering why I did not hear about Lisp earlier, even now, I do not hear or read of this language in any way, so I am hoping that after learning and hopefully liking it with some of luck maybe, I can start creating something with Lisp as many of the coders of Lisp say is a powerfull language, I want t osee its true potencial, and what it can really do. But I guess that is for an ethereal future, for now I will concentrate with passsing this class of programming language, obviously learning everything I can, so I can make everything with the language.

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