William C. Wake's Blog

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

It's a refresher in just how powerful Lisp is. For a language approaching 50 years old, it's pretty amazing.

I always crack up a little when I think about the reasons Lisp and Smalltalk couldn't go "mainstream" - why, they use too many resources! (My web browser looks like it's running in 41 meg so I can type into a non-styled text box. I doubt Lisp or Smalltalk would do worse than that:)

Anyway, if you've never studied Lisp, these lectuers are a good excuse for trying it out.

Comments

• When I joined MCC (the Microelectronics and Computer Consortium) back in 1990, there were several room full of dead Lisp Machines. It was really quite sad, and kind of suprising that language specific processors in general went extict so suddenly. They were all the rage when I was working on my Masters...
  With the power of desktops today, it is a wonder that Smalltalk hasn't made a comeback.

  --JohnR

  Posted by: johnreynolds on February 15, 2006 at 12:58 PM

• >With the power of desktops today, it is a wonder that Smalltalk hasn't made a comeback.

  
  I think all that energy's going into Ruby now.

  --Bill

  Posted by: wwake on February 16, 2006 at 05:02 AM

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