Comments on: Episode 84: Dick Gabriel on Lisp

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By: Jörg Bächtiger

Jörg Bächtiger — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:56:25 +0000

The link “Steele: Growing a Language (Paper)” is dead…

By: stal_m

stal_m — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Dear SE Radio team. Thanks for the interview with Dick. I was enjoying it today on my bike. It was brilliant, especially since I have reincarnated my Lisp knowledge only a few months ago. It is really impressing to hear some historical background by someone who has widely influenced the field himself. I also personally share Dick’s philosophy of combing art and computer science. Maybe, this could be a special topic for SE Radio sometime in the future, couldn’t it? BTW: What wasn’t mentioned that he is also sometimes acting as a rock musician. Maybe, you could get some more of these exciting pioneers.

– Michael

By: Markus

Markus — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

… for your comments

Markus

By: qollin

qollin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Again, a very nice and interesting podcast. You make my long car drives something to look forward to Do you happen to have the link to the McCarthy video mentioned in the podcast. I cannot seem to find it…

Thanx and keep up the great work!

By: jan

jan — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Hello,
a big thank you to the interviewer and the interviewee to for broadcasting this interview. It is my favorite intverview on se-radio.
Only one thing is missing – the link to the book Dick talked about: http://www.dreamsongs.com/IHE/
Please do more interviews with people that shaped the history of computer science. Looking back at history is very entertraining and relaxing in an industry that comes up with a new hype every couple of months or so.
Cheers,
Jan

By: happygiraffe

happygiraffe — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I really enjoyed this interview. Very interesting material, plus it was clear and loud enough for me to here on my commute.

By: clifft135

clifft135 — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Markus,

Great interview, even better than usual, with Dick Gabriel.

You mentioned that you were going to put in a link for the “Growing a Language” presentation by Guy Steele. The links to the video and the transcript follow.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8860158196198824415&hl=en

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brics.dk%2F~hosc%2Flocal%2FHOSC-12-3-pp221-236.pdf&ei=HEGeR5uaJ4L8gQSQxqC9Bw&usg=AFQjCNERLo8QJ2oKgcn1_cPGINvGmBB85w&sig2=PvOaKYyxz5kIeHmOxK5Z4A

Best Regards,

Cliff Thompson

By: Markus

Markus — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

… for submitting the links (and the nice words )

I have added the URLs to the links section of the Episode.

Markus

By: Mesirii

Mesirii — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I absolutely have to agree with my fellow commentators. This episode was great. Having listened to the OOPSLA performance of Guy and Dick before I had high expectations which were fully met.
Having you talk about the features lisp had then in these pioneer ages, which were almost forgotten in between and only recently rediscovered reminded me on the dark age of sciene in the middle ages.
I programmed some emacs lisp back then and found it very convenient. But I think I’ll take a try with scheme. Any suggestion for introductory material on that?

I’d also vote for more interviews with this kind of guys who shaped the landscape we’re living in today. Perhaps you can record some interviews at qcon as many of the influential people are there.

Michael Hunger
Independend Software Developer
Java embedded SQL DSL – http://jequel.de

By: ademelt

ademelt — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

One of the best so far!

As suggested by other commenters, I would also like to hear more interviews with those people who shaped the world of computer science over the past decades.

Cheers,
Achim

By: Elena

Elena — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

How fascinating to hear Dick Gabriel put Lisp, AI, and programming into historical perspective. Great stuff. His description of the creative process was very interesting also. Thanks for another quality podcast.

By: japonophile

japonophile — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Thank you for this podcast, I enjoyed it a lot. I like the parallel between software engineering and poetry. We, software engineers, are scientists, but we are also creative people.

By: clifft135

clifft135 — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Hi,

Since there is a lot of excellent material on Lisp in this interview, do you have an approximate time when this interview may be transcribed?

Best Regards,

Cliff Thompson

By: Markus

Markus — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Please check back in a couple of days.

By: 94520

94520 — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

It’s utterly fascinating to listen to people with so much experience in our field and so much wisdom to share. Please, please, please try to find more people like Richard.

By: Markus

Markus — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Markus

By: clifft135

clifft135 — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Marcus, et al.,

Excellent transcription! — also really liked the extra effort you put in with the links.

Best Regards,

Cliff Thompson

By: clifft135

clifft135 — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Video of a classic presentation by Guy Steele & Richard Gabriel: 50 in 50 at
http://blog.jaoo.dk/2008/11/21/art-and-code-obscure-or-beautiful-code/ — located at bottom of the page.

This is reference either in this interview or the one with Guy Steele.

Best Regards,

Cliff Thompson

By: SimonHawkin

SimonHawkin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Thank you very much. Insightful and inspirational!