Great talk about PTL-Scheme
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008I mess a little with scheme (and some lisps) from time to time. Rebol is sort of similar thing too.. I found this excellent and very energetic/funny talk about PTL-Scheme today. Looking at the PDF and listening to the talk gives you great peek into the world of scheme which is one of those smart, beautiful languages where a very powerful thing is build on basis of very few rules (lisp, scheme, rebol, factor, erlang (also has very few rules I think), forth)
In November 2001 I gave an invited talk at the inaugural Lightweight Languages conference that has since become somewhat notorious (in netspace, it is said to be “kickassing genial”).
DrDobb’s Journal was kind enough to record the conference and professionally edit the tracks. They unfortunately misplaced the audio track, and said they were unable to locate the backups. In cyberspace, however, nothing is ever lost; as Linux Torvalds said, “Real Men don’t make backups. They upload it via ftp and let the world mirror it.”
Enjoy!
