DC ALT.NET May Wrapup - Common Lisp and Applying Lessons Learned
The Presentation
Craig spent much of his summer vacation actually learning Common Lisp. The original idea was to learn Ruby, but why not go back to the grandfather of them all, Lisp. I remembered Lisp from back in the college years, but had forgotten most of it. It's very interesting to watch the presentation and learn how flexible of a language it is since we're just dealing with expression trees. I can definitely see where other languages got their heritage. All good things tend to come back to Lisp and SmallTalk!
Anyhow, the important features we covered were object oriented programming with Common Lisp Object System (CLOS), macros, defining properties and methods, and even the .NET interop story with IronScheme and others. It was a great time and I learned a lot. If you wish to grab his presentation notes, you can find them here.
Next time, I'll be presenting F#, so we'll keep on the functional programming style with some OOP mixed in, so I hope we see another great crowd for that. As always, join the mailing list here if you want to learn more.
