JTV Tech Talk: Peter Seibel on "Why Syntax [Does|Doesn't] Matter" December 13, 2007

Justin.tv is hosting tech talks for the SOMA hacker community. Free pizza will be served at noon, and the talk will start at 12:30 (for approx. 40 min). The talks will be open to anyone in the area who is interested in listening, and will also be broadcast on justin.tv/hackertv.

Peter Seibel, author of the Jolt Productivity Award winning book _Practical Common Lisp_[1], will be giving a talk, "Syntax [Does|Doesn't] Matter" or "If you take out the parentheses, will it still be Lisp?" Peter's talk will explore the effects syntax can have on a programming language and on its programmers -- how a given syntax creates an environment in which certain language features can thrive and others will likely whither. Peter is a writer turned programmer or perhaps a programmer turned writer. After working briefly as a journalist he was seduced by the web and turned to a life of Perl and Java hacking. In 2003 he quit his job as the architect of a Java-based transactional messaging system and ended up writing _Practical Common Lisp_. He is now at work on a new book, _Coders at Work_[2], a collection of interviews with sixteen notable programmers.

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