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Practical Common Lisp

Google TechTalksMay 10, 2006Peter SeibelABSTRACTIn 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 & Style
Uploaded: October 9, 2007 at 1:06 am
Author: googletechtalks

Length: 12:09
Rating: 4.11
Views: 10955

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