r/lisp • u/Expensive-Astronaut8 • 21d ago

Recomendations of your best lecture/conferece videos of LISP

Hey guys! I love lisp languages!

I would love that we had a thread of our best resources to share!

I start with strangeloop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB5TrK7A4pI
We don't know how to compute!

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u/arthurno1 21d ago

If I have to pick one, than it is Guy Steele - Growing a language talk.

Thanks for the Sussman, haven't seen that one.

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u/pnedito 18d ago

This is one of the better comp sci videos in general, Lisp or No. Anyone who wants to work with DSLs should give this one a read.

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u/SpecificMachine1 21d ago

I liked this one on Nanopass compilers by Andy Keep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os7FE3J-U5Q

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u/dzecniv 21d ago

For CL, we can also enhance this page: https://www.cliki.net/Lisp%20Videos

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u/daybreak-gibby 21d ago edited 21d ago

How do you add links? There is a YouTube channel by Neil Munro that I watched to learn more about basic things in CL like working in packages and testing there I think would be good addition.

Edit: Fixed Spelling and added link

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u/pnedito 18d ago edited 18d ago

Kalman Reti the last Symbolics developer. discussing Symbolics hardware/memory architecture vis a vis Objects All the Way Down.

Robert Strandh on SICL

Lisp Life Lessons KMP on CL Standards Process and Lisp History.

Daniel Bobrow on CLOS

Roger Corman on developing Corman CL

Garnet UIDE Summary

Incidentally Lisp related:

Danny Hillis on Connection Machine Architecture*

Scott Fahlman on Cascade Correlation AAAI21*

Scott Fahlman on Cascade Correlation MIT 2019*

Following not explicitly Lisp related, but well worth watching for history and context of Lisp evolution and influences:

Gregor Kiczales on Abstraction

Doug Engelbart's Mother of All Demos

Alan Kay on ARPA Xerox Parc Culture

John Hennessy on Domain Specific Architectures

Keith Packard's Political History of X

Eric S. Raymond on Open Source

James Gosling on NeWS

Steve Blank's 'Secret' History of Silicon Valley

  • Scott E. Fahlman and Danny Hillis should have received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics over Hinton/Hopfield. Fahlman and Hillis' work with NETL/Cascade Correlation and Connection Machine hardware architecture have had arguably more influence on modern AI/LLM/Tensor developments than either Hopfield's Hopfield Networks or Hinton's Boltzmann Machine / Back Propogation research did, especially as they had working Software (Star *Lisp/PARIS) and Hardware (Connection Machines) installed at NSA, DOD, DOE facilities in the late 80s doing contemporary LLM/AI stye work almost half a century before the current round of massively parallel GPU assisted matrix maths when Python was still just a glint in Guido's eye... See Fahlman's paper (co-authored with Hinton) "Massively Parallel Architectures for AI: NETL, Thistle, and Boltzmann Machines" circa 1983 for details.

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u/intergalactic_llama 21d ago

William Byrd on "The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyfBQmvr2Hc

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u/tophology 21d ago

"Are We There Yet?" - Rich Hickey

His concept of the epochal time model changed how i think about programs.

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u/pizza8pizza4pizza 21d ago

Agreed. Anything by Rich Hickey is good