Dick Gabrielon Lisp

This podcast of Software Engineering Radio talks about the programming language of Lisp featuring Dick Gabriel. He started his company called Lucid that uses Lisp. He explains some of the features that make unique Lisp in regards to other programming languages.

He says that everything written in Lisp is a function. When I heard that I remember what I wrote in clojure and realize that we define everything, that is something I did not saw when I started coding until now, and I think that is one of its advantages but saying that, I'm curious on how you can write a fully operational program, and I'm looking forward to see that.

Also he talks about macros, that this are like little programs that produces an expression you want. I think this is something really useful, and I would be glad to make me a pro with this things called macros, because I think this is one of its general features and a key component to be really good with this language and I hope I don't fail on this task.

They aboard and interesting topic, that is why is not so used the language of Lisp. Dick defends the language by saying that is used sporadically in some research and also some commercially companies like Yahoo Store or for airlines reservations, and robotics stuff but I don't really see why is this could be a solid defense, like I would like to know more about why they choose to use Lisp instead of other languages, what were the advantages and so on.

I am always wondering why I did not hear about Lisp earlier, even now, I do not hear or read of this language in any way, so I am hoping that after learning and hopefully liking it with some of luck maybe, I can start creating something with Lisp as many of the coders of Lisp say is a powerful language, I want to see its true potencial, and what it can really do. But I guess that is for afuture, for now I will concentrate with passing this class for sure, obviously learning everything I can.