Dick Gabriel on LISP

In this podcast Dick Gabriel was interviewed, he is a programmer that loves lisp and even has a Company based on lisp. At the start, he gives a brief explanation of what is lisp and he mentions that lisp a Young Language and at that time it was almost the 50th anniversary, basically he mentions that lisp is a functional Language where everything Works using nested functions.  I really liked the passion with which he speaks and it amazed me the fact that lisp is crucial of AI investigation, I did not know this and was really interested in how it was more useful than other languages.

I believe lisp is a very powerful programming language, it is a little complicated since you have to think in a different way, you have to analyze problems differently and at the end it is a language that you don’t see every day.

It is interesting to know that lisp was the inspiration for other languages like ruby, I don’t know about this language other than it is used on web development and it is quite popular nowadays, I have not used lisp a lot out of school but I truly believe that if I can “master” the language I could have a very powerful tool at my disposal, it is so powerful but yet somehow small and I understand the reason Dick would make a company around lisp.