Guido Van Rossum :: History Of Python Programming Language

Perhaps Guido Van Rossum's legacy is not the creation of celebrated and equally hated Python Programming language. It is his steady fast adherence to the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris. Rossum talks about the history of python programming language design and implementation in this lecture. A must watch even if you don't use Python.

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Entertaining Lisp Tutorial From Lisprati.com

Here is a very entertaining Lisp Tutorial Casting SPELs In Lisp from Lisprati.com's Conrad Barski, M.D . This comic book like tutorial teaches the basics of lisp programming language by writing a text based adventure like game.

If you are a Emacs user like me, then there is a Emacs Lisp Edition of the book too. However the book is only translated into only one language Turkish. I guess translating this book into other languages would be a wonderful idea. Get in touch with Conrad if you are interested.

Lastly, If you don't like lisp then you may try the examples in Ruby and Haskell (almost) too.

Happy Spell Casting!!