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Dick Gabriel on Lisp

It is quite interesting how the path one take may be altered in a certain way of creation, it is not know that is going to happen in the future, or even what things we would do. Some key events on life brings us where we are right know, you could be a programmer but maybe in some future you will work with plants.

Technology is present in all branches, in everything where ingenious and creation is. Working with other branch that is new to your context may improve some things around you, the fact of having more tools at your range may give some performance in what you are doing, in the case of Dick Gabriel, he talks on how technology had helped him. And the way LISP works is understandable if we look at the abstraction of its commitment. With LISP’s creation, programmers had improved in certain areas of computer science, such as AI. With this creation had come an important revolution that had change certain paradigms that programmers lived in.

Languages… like LISP has the structure, or well, it syntax is based on the polish notation, and is very old but has potential, Dick Gabriel had the vision of solving problems with lists. I wonder if exist a programming languages based on German, or other interesting languages structures that exist.

In my opinion is wonderful to have such varieties of programming languages, because each one of them has their own abstraction and useful advantages. They are all the different approaches of problem solution, that have certain roots that defines the concept of observing the problem to be solved.

The path offers a vast selection of tastes and colors, we only have to decide which one to take and how to use it, getting everything from it and exploding its potential.

http://www.se-radio.net/2008/01/episode-84-dick-gabriel-on-lisp/

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