Lisp. But Why?

An exploration of the philosophy, history, and practical benefits of Lisp languages like Common Lisp and Clojure.

An attempt to convey the why of a lisp 00:00 Introduction 01:45 What makes a Lisp, "Lisp"? 05:40 Objective for the Day 07:24 My Path so Far 07:35 A Mercenary in the Holy Wars 08:35 Essential Essays 10:20 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs 13:20 first true Lisp: "Common Lisp" 14:30 Common Lisp: The Series 16:00 A Plateau 17:10 Text Editing to Orchestration 19:30 The Textual Arts 24:40 Zooming Out 25:30 Pragmatic Software Engineering 27:30 Easter Eggs 29:06 The Why of a Lisp. 31:00 The Idea of Solving Problems 31:30 Sponsor: CognWare Industries 35:00 Is that it? 37:30 The Season of Clojure 39:00 Symbolic Algebra 40:30 Hope you had fun 42:00 Contacts 44:40 There Was an Attempt Links: Beating the Averages : paulgraham.com/avg.html How to be a Hacker : catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs : mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/books_pre… Software Design for Flexibility : mitpress.mit.edu/9780262045490/software-design-for-flexibili… On Lisp : paulgraham.com/onlisp.html Practical Common Lisp : gigamonkeys.com/book/ Let Over Lambda : letoverlambda.com/ Nth-Roam : github.com/rajp152k/nth-roam fabric-gpt.el : github.com/rajp152k/fabric-gpt.el Maxwell's Equations of Software : queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523 MetaLinguistic Abstraction : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalinguistic_abstraction Contacts: bitmage vlogs : thebitmage.com/dd0x/ bitmage blogs : thebitmage.com/all-posts/ cognware : cognware.com cognware yt : youtube.com/@CognWare cognware github : github.com/CognWare-Industries cognware SaaS : cognware.com/posts/saas/saas/ mail : raj@cognware.com instagram : @ln2.thebitmage github : @rajp152k X/twitter : @rajpatil152k goodreads : @rajp152k