Berlin Lisp Meetup - Marco Baringer- Ruby vs. Lisp
Channel: Hans Hübner
Date: 15/06/2012

This is a recording of the Berlin Lisp Meeting on June 14th, 2012

"A highly opinionated 'from the trenches' comparison of the Ruby ecosystem and culture versus the (Common) Lisp ecosystem in the context of a small web startup."

Including...

why I wrote the first version in Ruby and the second in Lisp;
how the libraries "feel";
what's important to Ruby coders and what's important to Lisp coders;
implementing the best parts of Rails in 1000 lines of Lisp;
NIH syndrome vs never-invent-anything-here syndrome;
the myth of "you can't find language-X programmers"

Marco is a software developer specialized in web application development. He has used Common Lisp for many projects because it has proven to be the best solution to most of the problems he has encountered. He was the first author of the "UnCommon Web" web stack and contributed to SLIME's early development and other open source projects. He is currently employed as the lead developer at deskwanted.com.

The audio is not great, but it improves after a while because we closed the windows.

http://netzhansa.blogspot.de/2012/06/thu-june-14-7pm-marco-baringer-on-ruby.html