By the way, is video for the Strange Loop presentation linked near the end <http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/StefanKarpinski/b8fe9dbb36c1427b9f22> ever going to be public?
On Sunday, 13 July 2014 04:55:43 UTC+2, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > Graydon Hoare (original author of Rust) wrote a truly lovely essay in two > parts about the history of programming languages, the predominance of > two-language systems – or "Ousterhout-dichotomy languages," as he puts it – > Lisp's historical defiance of this dichotomy, Dylan as a successor to Lisp, > and finally Julia as a modern successor to Lisp and Dylan: > > http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/3186.html > http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/189377.html > > > This is a great read and an edifying historical perspective, regardless of > the Julia bit at the end, but may be especially interesting to folks on > julia-users. >
