Christine Lemmer-Webber

Goblins is the core secure distributed programming layer of Spritely, a project to research and develop the future of networked communication. Goblins was originally written on top of Racket, but has recently been ported to Guile. See a live demonstration of using the system in action, and learn about its history!

The old joke goes that LISP stands for "Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses", but another spin could be "LISP Isn't Structurally Parenthetical". Lispers seem to come to like parentheses eventually and defend them, and newcomers with no preconceptions seem to not have problems as much as existing programmers do, but the fear of lisp in the general programming world remains strong. But is parenthetical notation really the best way to represent lisp? In this talk we explore several alternate representations and their practical use, and speculate on a future where everyone could benefit from lisp's unique properties without fear.