DIck Gabriel on Lisp

For this podcast there are several interesting things, but one that takes my attention is that here is the third time that I find the mention of the macros as one of the strengths of Lisp, but in this case I think it was explained by Dick Gabriel like a major advantage focused on the technical utility, more than the others, than mentioned some technical advantages, but were so more reiterative with the competition advantage or the general advantages.

Also, one of the things that I enjoyed were the direct comparisons with other languages, I felt his preference just by the way he expressed himself; that could be just presented again with the several advantages he finds about the functional ways of Lisp, its methods, the way Lisp can express everything as a function against the object oriented languages, and the significance of the popularity of Scheme in the history of the relegation of Lisp.

Some things he mentioned that were impactful for me is specific enterprises that were using Lisp at that time, and the way that Common Lisp is still viable, and you can find that can be way more powerful than others. He lived that transition from Lisp being the most used language to be almost disappeared. He gives us his perspective about the past, present and future of this great language, and one thing that makes me wonder the importance when we learn Lisp at my Programming Languages class is that he doesn’t place it on the most used languages, but with his experience and the advantages he shows for using it; just make me have even more interest about some practical applications.

For the end, I liked so much the approach that we made to Lisp with this podcast, I feel it way more personal than the articles, and It was way more impactful for me and for my perspective of Lisp.