Reminder: Peter Seibel is talking at the Justin.tv office on Thursday (Dec 13th)
Peter Seibel, author of the Jolt Productivity Award winning book Practical Common Lisp, 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, a collection of interviews with sixteen notable programmers.
The Justin.tv office is at 36 Clyde Street, San Francisco. Free pizza will be served from 12pm and Peter's talk will start at 12:30pm and run for about 40 minutes. After the talk we'll have time for Q&A. If you're in the area, please feel free to drop by. If you can't make it in person, you can see the talk live at http://www.justin.tv/hackertv (12:30pm PST) and participate in the Q&A via the chat pane on that page. And of course if you don't manage to catch the talk live, the archived video will soon show up on that page for you to watch when you're ready.
Incidentally, thanks are due to Conrad Barski, who created the awesome artwork that's on the hackertv channel!
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