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#softwareEngineering #computerScience #programming #commonLisp #history #essay #reading of Whither Original Thought #transcript from @kentpitman
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/show/kmp-whither-original-thought/
with a link to its beginning in the interview.

I chose to hand-transcribe it to remove (and probably introduce) discontinuities.

A central theme is the tyrannies of programming libraries and the question of having exhaustive knowledge of your increasingly numerous dead forebearers.

Read it yourself (and/or listen finally).

#lispyGopherClimate #interview #transcript #webDev #technology #computerHistory #lisp #commonlisp #harlequin #CLIM

https://screwlisp.small-web.org/show/kmp-lisp-web-testing/

Summary and transcript of the first eight minutes of the hour-long downloadable episode, including Kent's summary of his personal web work in lisp (mostly at Harlequin) through the 80s and 90s.

@vindarel @khinsen (being the missing guests)
@kentpitman @dougmerritt @mdhughes

I'm hand-transcribing and summarizing, so this is something like part 1/6.