Re: [fonc] Richard Gabriel Guy Steele, 50 in 50 talk

2011-06-25 Thread BGB
On 6/24/2011 9:07 PM, Julian Leviston wrote: On 24/06/2011, at 11:42 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: They gave that presentation more than once (I saw it a OOPSLA). Awesome :) Here's a version from JAOO'08, streams fine in Germany:

Re: [fonc] Richard Gabriel Guy Steele, 50 in 50 talk

2011-06-25 Thread Bob Arning
I concur. It was mildly entertaining at points, but mostly I kept hoping they would speed up the pace while slowing down the camera switching. Since some smart people recommended it, I kept plugging away. I got a bit over half way before bailing. Cheers, Bob On 6/25/11 12:07 AM, Julian

Re: [fonc] Richard Gabriel Guy Steele, 50 in 50 talk

2011-06-25 Thread BGB
On 6/25/2011 3:27 AM, Bob Arning wrote: I concur. It was mildly entertaining at points, but mostly I kept hoping they would speed up the pace while slowing down the camera switching. Since some smart people recommended it, I kept plugging away. I got a bit over half way before bailing. I

Re: [fonc] Richard Gabriel Guy Steele, 50 in 50 talk

2011-06-25 Thread Dale Schumacher
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 6:00 AM, BGB cr88...@gmail.com wrote: ... the more a language moves towards being practical and useful, the more it will likely tend to resemble more mainstream languages. which I suspect more work through a sort of long-term distilation/refinement process, where useful

Re: [fonc] Richard Gabriel Guy Steele, 50 in 50 talk

2011-06-25 Thread Dethe Elza
On 2011-06-25, at 3:27 AM, Bob Arning wrote: I concur. It was mildly entertaining at points, but mostly I kept hoping they would speed up the pace while slowing down the camera switching. Since some smart people recommended it, I kept plugging away. I got a bit over half way before

Re: [fonc] Richard Gabriel Guy Steele, 50 in 50 talk

2011-06-24 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 24.06.2011, at 08:22, Julian Leviston wrote: On 24/06/2011, at 4:14 PM, Hans-Martin Mosner wrote: Am 22.06.2011 23:45, schrieb Steve Dekorte: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nii1n8PYLrc Thoughts? Sadly, this can't be watched in Germany (unless you employ TOR or some other mechanism

Re: [fonc] Richard Gabriel Guy Steele, 50 in 50 talk

2011-06-24 Thread Julian Leviston
On 24/06/2011, at 11:42 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: They gave that presentation more than once (I saw it a OOPSLA). Awesome :) Here's a version from JAOO'08, streams fine in Germany: http://blog.jaoo.dk/2008/11/21/art-and-code-obscure-or-beautiful-code/ - Bert - I actually

Re: [fonc] Richard Gabriel Guy Steele, 50 in 50 talk

2011-06-23 Thread BGB
On 6/22/2011 2:45 PM, Steve Dekorte wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nii1n8PYLrc Thoughts? interesting, but wasn't so fond of the music or graphics or skits... a bit much like something from the 70s... also, although mainstream languages aren't necessarily all that