21st Century Lisp in Academic Research and Pedagogy
summary
Asserts that Lisp-family languages drive real research and teaching: Common Lisp codebases power a bioinformatics database + NLP pipeline and a search prototype called BioChat (preprint on bioRxiv, repo forked 43 times, site went offline when funding ended but code is open); Typed Racket runs the major-level intro with DrRacket, contracts, big-bang visuals and near-zero runtime exceptions; Clojure + ClojureScript glues Neo4j, Kubernetes and web UI in an intern project with a valued REPL workflow; Elm teaches practical FP via the Elm architecture and no-runtime-exception claims.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction to the keynote
- 1:20Lisp in academia and research
- 2:58The BioLisp foundation
- 5:05Research applications in biology
- 6:54BioChat and software development
- 11:19Introduction to student perspectives
- 13:28Introductory courses with Racket
- 23:33Clojure for software engineering
- 28:58Learning functional programming with Elm
- 35:07Summary of student experiences
- 38:24Q&A and closing remarks