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…
A bit long winded, … A bit long winded, and the hater get too much air time. I wish more lisp people would have some apps to point at though…… I mean people really do want RESULTS not hey this is cool macros are cool blah…… but I admire the guy for doing the book and for trying at least to get some word out vid wise. I wish he had soem working CMS app or some working website or some damn thigns to SHOW though.
holy fucking shitt … holy fucking shitt !
i looked at sonics comment it was like u’ll be a legend if u watch it and im like ohh it cant be that long right ? 72 MINUTES !??! LONGEST VID ON YOUTUBE HOLY SHIIITTTT bahahah:)
omg i cant even load a 5 minutes vid on youtube! how do you possibly upload a 72 minute video ?!?! thats nuts ! is must’ve taken days ! lmao.
Google TechTalks
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:39 am
WTF i dont get this …
WTF i dont get this He doesn’t even talk about Lisp I just watched This damn video for nothing.
November 1st, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Doesn’t talk about …
Doesn’t talk about Lisp? What?
November 7th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
I am soooo not …
I am soooo not watching this whole thing
November 11th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
If you did watch …
If you did watch the whole thing you’d know that he does talk about Lisp quite a lot.
November 11th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
A bit long winded, …
A bit long winded, and the hater get too much air time. I wish more lisp people would have some apps to point at though…… I mean people really do want RESULTS not hey this is cool macros are cool blah…… but I admire the guy for doing the book and for trying at least to get some word out vid wise. I wish he had soem working CMS app or some working website or some damn thigns to SHOW though.
December 2nd, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Alan Kay ( …
Alan Kay (originator of the term ‘object-oriented programming’)on Lisp: “The greatest single programming language ever designed.”
December 12th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
Yahoo store and …
Yahoo store and Orbitz both use Lisp.
December 15th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
thats the longest …
thats the longest video i have ever seen not that i watched it.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:11 am
i thought this was …
i thought this was going to be a video teaching me how to talk like a gay man, i’m disappointed.
January 17th, 2008 at 3:00 am
ur a legend if u …
ur a legend if u watch the whole thing hahaha or a loser
January 27th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
holy fucking shitt …
holy fucking shitt !
i looked at sonics comment it was like u’ll be a legend if u watch it and im like ohh it cant be that long right ? 72 MINUTES !??! LONGEST VID ON YOUTUBE HOLY SHIIITTTT bahahah:)
omg i cant even load a 5 minutes vid on youtube! how do you possibly upload a 72 minute video ?!?! thats nuts ! is must’ve taken days ! lmao.