Added: Oct 8, 2007

From: googletechtalks

Duration: 72:9

Google TechTalks May 10, 2006 Peter Seibel ABSTRACT In the late 1920's linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf hypothesized that the thoughts we can think are largely determined by the language we speak. In his essay "Beating the Averages" Paul Graham echoed this notion and invented a hypothetical language, Blub, to explain why it is so hard for programmers to appreciate programming language features that aren't present in their own favorite language. Does the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis hold for computer languages? Can you be a great software architect if you only speak Blub? Doesn't Turing equivalence imply that language choice is just another implementation detail? Yes, no, and no says Peter...

Channel: Howto

Tags: common  lisp  peter  programming  seibel 


Rating: 4.13 (23 ratings)    Views: 15773' favoriteCount='5    Comments: 25

blackwaterfun Says:

Feb 25, 2008 - Paul Graham made 50,000,000 by selling yahoo his viaweb. NICE! I deal w java all the time and so many erros are liek window.....just reboot tomcat etc etc.......sems sloppy and crazy language.......and 8million frameworks etc. show taht java alone nto enuf guntgank!!

TheGzeus Says:

Mar 9, 2008 - ...I know. What does that have to do with anything? That's an IMPLEMENTATION. Not a LANGUAGE. What point are you trying to make. Mine is Arc is basically more terse rep with some web stuff in the standard library.

FUELEDinENERGY1 Says:

Mar 9, 2008 - how the fruck is this 72 minutes?

1994cg Says:

Mar 13, 2008 - no its not. theres nothing funny

nicole4310 Says:

Mar 19, 2008 - 72 minutes?! damn

imetbeyonce Says:

Apr 22, 2008 - aww hell naw! this might as well be a feature Film!!

footbllrdude16 Says:

May 9, 2008 - wtf y would someone post a video 72 minutes long?

horneyvirus Says:

Jun 29, 2008 - what a fucking waste of an hour and a quarter.

snapcrklpoplokndrop Says:

Jul 1, 2008 - this is so frikin lame, it is almost half as retarded as the people in it...waste of 1:12:09

5imian Says:

Jul 4, 2008 - JEsus, all you people flaming this video- what did you expect? Its an informative video about list processing... you should be thankful this kind of information is free. LISP is a powerful language, and is used in things like artificial intelligence. David COpe, a composer, even models a program that could reproduce any musical style with LISP. GO somewhere else to watch stupid webcam speeches from idiots and cats falling diwn stairs.

5imian Says:

Jul 4, 2008 - Google owns youtube you !@#$# idiot. They can put whatever they want on here! And they are putting out informative tech talks. if you don't like it go elsewhere.

xoaliishaax3 Says:

Jul 4, 2008 - lisps are sexy (: bishhh.

xoaliishaax3 Says:

Jul 4, 2008 - by the way this is fucking stupiddd. :] like 5imian. btw, wtf kinda screenname is that? :]

xoaliishaax3 Says:

Jul 4, 2008 - ur a fucking loser.

c101011 Says:

Jul 6, 2008 - lol, you're a stupid cunt.

5imian Says:

Jul 8, 2008 - Its not stupid- Its an intelligent comparison between linguistics an modern coding languages. This guy is considered an expert in the List processing language community. As for my name, do a search for "simian" on wikipedia and learn something.... this coming from a guy who looks like his keyboard took a dump in the name field of his user info. Xoalilshaax3? i cant even pronounce that. Seriously..stop being a youtube flamer. Dont do drugs.

horneyvirus Says:

Jul 14, 2008 - yeah but i didn't learn jackshit about lisp. and this video has nothing to do with lisp. this shit isn't even tangential to lisp.

peotrovitch Says:

Jul 15, 2008 - So right at the end, he was about to tell us why Lisp is not the most popular language ... and the video cut off. Ahhh! OK not because of any inherent s/w insufficiency, then it must be sociological? Siebel may not be the easiest speaker to listen to, but the topics of multiple dispatch, condition handlers and macros are worth considering. A taste of lisp power. Perhaps the issue is where he touched on Lisp being maleable. We can do great things with it, and unconstructive things too ...

horneyvirus Says:

Jul 17, 2008 - Because you get 72 virgins for killing yourself.

horneyvirus Says:

Aug 22, 2008 - dude.. you have a myspace page.. kill yourself before you procreate.

5imian Says:

Aug 26, 2008 - Yeah, i use it to post videos about the robots i build and music i write. I have a degree in music and use Lisp to write generative music. I like to share my work with friends and family. Myspace is pretty user friendly for non-techies so its a good forum to do that. I don't check it much and certainly wouldn't consider myself embedded in the "myspace community". You are pretty lame to be looking me up on myspace just to flame me. At least i do something i care about and put it out there.

horneyvirus Says:

Aug 27, 2008 - i flamed you because you have a superiority complex. now stfu and go back to myspace little girl.

5imian Says:

Aug 28, 2008 - Have fun trolling the Google tech talk videos you worthless sack of crap. Judging from our respective video feedback, I would say that my "superiority complex" (yeah right) is completely overshadowed by your raging stupidity. Oh, and i am definitely not a little girl. That would be your overactive imagination and sick fantasy life. Go away.

bluesrunthegame Says:

Oct 25, 2008 - This is so much better than sleep.

SweeneyLovers Says:

Nov 8, 2008 - *snore* Dang thats long! Im glad i noticed how long it took rather than watching the whole thing!